Torrit grey

[Renee Price]

When I was going through the recent threads, I saw a demo by Chris Saper using Gamblin's Torrit Grey. (Thank you for that Chris!) I bought a tube of Gamblin recently and received Torrit Grey for free--I love this color! I was very suprised to see how violet Chris' version was because mine was more neutral grey leaning toward green.

You would think that a recycled mixure of every pigment would muddy every color it was mixed with, but that's not the case. I've been able to create some nice color mixes with this. Too bad the color is available for one year only and only one per customer!

Has anyone else tried this color, or plan to enter the Torrit Grey competition?

Renee Price

[Chris Saper]

Renee,

Good for you, and lucky that you got one of the non-VIOLE(N)T tubes!

I'm still working on an entry, good luck to you!

[Julie Deane]

Renee -

Hope you enter and win! This is a fun contest. I entered a few years ago and won some free paints. I got more pleasure out of choosing the colors than I ever did with winning a ribbon that only gets stashed away in a drawer.

The color keeps changing, which is part of the fun.

Great way for the company to use up their dust, and probably get some tax benefit as well as aid the environment.

[Richard Bingham]

It's a grey world.

Since materials were quite precious in their time, the "olde masters" recycled "slops" too . . . using the resulting indistinct neutral grays in monotone underpaintings (grisaille).

There is no such thing as "muddy color" . . . intrinsically. "Mud" is a color/value in the wrong place.

Good luck with the contest!

[Michele Rushworth]

There is no such thing as "muddy color" . . . intrinsically. "Mud" is a color/value in the wrong place.

Well said!