FOUND Alternative to FUGITIVE ALIZARIN CRIMSON! Quinacridone Rose & Magenta; Alizarin Crimson

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[@pau8460]

Thank you for this useful comparison. I will use the quidacridone rose. Blessings!

[@KaustavMukherjeeFineArt]

Thank you! I think you should go for some of them and decide after that.

[@SnkobArts]

Fun fact: Alizarin or the Cochineal Lake it is based on (even worse lightfastness), is reasonably permanent when used as a glaze of pure color, and subjected to museum-like conditions. This is demonstrated by the unfaded Cochineal Lake glazes in Centuries old Van Eyck paintings.

[@KaustavMukherjeeFineArt]

Strange! Van Gogh's Carmine in the bedroom painting completely vanished!

[@jsprite123]

@@KaustavMukherjeeFineArt Van Gogh usually painted thick (impasto, basically), whereas the Van Eyck's mentioned in the comment above were in glaze forms (quite the opposite from impasto).

[@KaustavMukherjeeFineArt]

@@jsprite123 doesn't matter. Madder lakes, Alizarin will eventually fade.

[@mathilda6763]

I searched for a video just like this. I have giant tube of alizarin crimson and it's my go-to red for colour mixing, because it does both good oranges and flesh colours and a good purple blue with cobalt teal. It perfect except for the light fastness problems which is why I need a substitute for paintings that are going to be given to other people. Right now I'm testing primary magenta and permanent alizarin chrimson hue (both Schmincke Norma) and both are frustrating to work with. Thr magenta is a bit to cool so the oranges are a bit less juicy and rhe permanent alizarin chrimson hue is a bit darker and more brown than the deal so it mutes my purple blues when used with cobalt teal. Maybe I'll try the quin rose... Daniel Smith is quite expensive though. In the long run I want a red that can play peacefully with both my lemon yellow and my cobalt teal.

[@KaustavMukherjeeFineArt]

You can try pr264 from various manufacturers (mentioned in the video)...a direct single pigment replacement of alizarin crimson

[@marcjasi]

Great video thank you! I am also looking for a AC replacement. Still looking, but leaning towards PV19 too. Looks like a good alternative. Like mention in a comment below, there is ways to use AC in a permanent way, it seems. But for color mixing, like you show here, yeah PV19 seems a good one. I am having a look at PR177-Anthraquinone Red, Gamblin produce Permanent Crimson with it. I was looking also at Rembrandt's PR176-Benzimidazolone Carmine or their Permanent Madder Deep PR264-Pyrrole Rubine. I just tried Rembrandt Permanent Madder Brown, but this one is on the warm side. I keep looking. But thanks again for your video, very informative

[@KaustavMukherjeeFineArt]

Thank you. Whatever pigment you look for be sure check the permanence level from various sources. Just like Alizarin Crimson many modern pigments also fail at permanence test.

[@diegoallcore]

Amazing comparison thanks

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