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Brilliant Blue:
BLUES
Prussian blue—A strong tinting blue, very dark with a greenish cast. Good for producing brilliant greens when combined with yellow.
Cobalt blue—A strong blue with a reddish cast. Good for mixing.
Cerulean blue—A strong blue with a greenish cast.
Ultramarine—Sometimes called French blue. It has a reddish cast and makes a beautiful purple when mixed with alizarin crimson.2. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is on higher ground. This is the one with six minarets, and because it was given six the Great Mosque of Mecca, which already had six, was given a seventh, so that it might retain its minaret supremacy. A fragment of the black stone that Gabriel gave to Abraham, the celebrated Kaaba, Mecca's holy of holies, is alleged to be in the mihrab (prayer nook) of this edifice. The interior of the mosque is a brilliant blue, which accounts for its popular name, the Blue Mosque. Some of the blue is of a very lovely and delicate hue, on faience. More of it is preposterously garish, being blue decorations crudely painted on the columns and vaulting.
In selecting colors for walls from small samples one should always keep in mind the fact that the color is to be used in a large area and will appear more brilliant in its mass than it will in the small sample. The constituents of mixed colors are usually more easily identified by comparison with other colors, i.e., a greenish blue will look greener when placed next to a pure blue, and a certain red will look bluish or yellowish when placed next to a pure red. One can also identify the respective degree of neutrality or tonal value of a color by this same method.
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