To Jackie: The names of colors come from so many different origins; plants, animals, minerals, or from someone who invented the color (van dyke brown, after the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). I love the obscurer names such as caput mortuum, gombadge, veridian, zinnober, but where the simple, the basic ones come from ( black, white, brown, red, * green, yellow and blue, that would be quite a LIU-task.

* Hooker's green we've recently discussed. These are all like they are written in English on artist paints tubes.

Last edited by BranShea; 03/16/2012 6:33 PM.