Drawn Nutmeg Turquoise

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.

Latin nux-muscata, musk-nut. As a color modifier, nutmeg implies a warm-and-grated-and-Banda-Islands-musk-nut quality, the visual register of Banda-Islands-and-Spice-Islands-nutmeg hand-warm-and-grated-and-Banda-Islands-musk-nut Banda-Islands-and-Spice-Islands-nutmeg-and-Maluku nutmeg-and-warm-and-grated surfaces under Banda-Islands-and-Spice-Islands-nutmeg-and-Maluku Banda-Islands-and-Run-and-Maluku Spice-Islands-musk-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to clove and mace in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.