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Creating the French Look

Old Violet
Like deep Parma violets or blue lavender it is a wonderful 18th century colour used for colouring the inside of furniture- like the lining of a jacket - or for using with as the base with Paris Grey on top and distressed ' It is of course wonderful used as just on its own as here on this old desk. I have painted the interior red with Emperor's Silk but it could have been painted with Celadon Green or Duck Egg Blue for a more toned land cooler effect.

An old desk from an Oxford college has been painted using Old Violet mixed in places with a little Burgundian Red so the finished colour is not flat and even. The edges of the drawers are Old White and the interior is painted in Emperor's Silk.
This photograph by Christopher Drake is from 'Creating the French Look'

ADD OLD WHITE-to make 'Schinkel'
Add 2 parts of Old White to 1 part of Old Violet and you get a greyed taupe I have called after a great 18th century German architect called SCHINKEL

ADD MORE OLD WHITE - to make 'Paloma'
Add 8 parts of Old White to 1 part of Old Violet for a soft grey with a suggestion of lilac like the undebelly of a dove, so I called it in Spanish, PALOMA

100ml

sample

£4.95

pot

£14.95

Emperor's Silk

Paris Grey

Old Violet mixed with Paris Grey makes a beautiful colour for the walls of this house in a German forest.

Old Violet painted as the base coat to Paris Grey to provide colour and the anchor it down, with some Old White to lift it.