Drawn Pith Ocean

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 English piþa, pith / inner-stalk. As a color modifier, pith implies a soft-inner-stalk-or-core quality, the visual register of bamboo-and-elderberry-and-rattan-pith hand-cut-and-extracted soft-inner-stalk-or-core hand-cut-and-extracted-pith-and-core surfaces under hand-cut-and-extracted-pith-and-core workshop-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to cane and bark in usage.

The body of saltwater that covers seventy percent of Earth's surface — a single connected mass divided by convention into Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The color refers to the average reflectance of mid-depth temperate ocean: a saturated, slightly green-shifted deep blue with the optical depth of a body of water that absorbs all light below the photic zone. Deeper than mediterranean, cooler than peacock.