Drawn Eros 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.

Greek Ἔρως, god-of-love-and-desire. As a color modifier, eros implies a winged-love-and-arrow-of-desire quality, the visual register of Praxiteles-Eros-and-Roman-Cupid hand-winged-love-and-arrow-of-desire Praxiteles-Eros-and-Roman-Cupid-and-Pompeii-fresco eros-and-winged-love-and-arrow-of-desire surfaces under Praxiteles-Eros-and-Roman-Cupid-and-Pompeii-fresco Hellenistic-and-Roman-Pompeii rose-and-myrtle-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to zeus and hera 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.