Drawn Gable 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 gable, triangular-end-of-pitched-roof. As a color modifier, gable implies a triangular-end-of-pitched-roof quality, the visual register of English-and-Tudor-and-Pennsylvania-Dutch-gable hand-built triangular-pitched-roof gable-and-dormer architectural surfaces under English-and-Tudor-and-Dutch gable-end light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to eave and truss 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.