Drawn Glint 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.

Middle English glent, to-shine-or-glance. As a color modifier, glint implies a brief-and-glancing-and-pinpoint-shine quality, the visual register of Scottish-burn-and-anvil-spark-glint hand-brief-and-glancing-and-pinpoint-shine Scottish-burn-and-anvil-spark-and-flint-strike glinted-and-brief-and-glancing surfaces under Scottish-burn-and-anvil-spark-and-flint-strike sun-on-water-and-forge-spark fleeting-glance-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to gleam and spark 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.