Drawn Coiled Verdigris

Old English dragan, to draw — past-participle of draw. As a color modifier, drawn implies a clear-and-line-and-mark quality, the crisp color of Old-Master-and-Modernist hand-drawn studio-and-life-class observational-drawing graphite-and-charcoal lines. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to etched and drafted in usage.

Old French coillir, to-collect. As a color modifier, coiled implies a wound-and-spiral quality, the visual register of hand-coiled-rope-and-clay hand-coiled-and-wound rope-and-clay-and-pottery hand-coiled-and-wound coil-and-spiral-and-pottery surfaces under hand-coiled-and-wound pottery-and-rope workshop-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to twined and looped in usage.

The basic copper carbonate that forms on weathered copper and bronze — the pigment scraped from oxidized metal and used in Renaissance painting before being supplanted by more stable greens. The color refers to a thick verdigris on aged copper roofing or the Statue of Liberty's surface: a soft, slightly muted blue-green with the powdery finish of mineral oxide. Cooler than patina, warmer than seafoam, with the archaeological weight of a mineral made by time.