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Marjorie Firth

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Now this is a coincidence...I was choosing some colours today ( in the Jackson's Catalogue ) and I saw Mars orange, which I'd never noticed before. In the Vasari classic oil range. You may have got there before me Robert. The only "Mars" I've used, and I love it, is Mars Violet but it's very different.

Syd Edward

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Marjorie in my early days of painting I was told to avoid Mars colours and I dont know why . Perhaps because there is a Mars Black and black gets a bad name among some artists. Theres nowt wrong wi Mars Bars any road.Now where is Robert and his Mars Orange?......Syd

Adele Elgood

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But not deep fried Mars Bars Syd as some people like - Yuk!

Adele Elgood

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Everything is smaller nowadays Marjorie - they think we don't notice!
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Missed the thread, Syd. Mars colours are fine to use in oil - they're just synthetic iron oxides, lightfast, warm, and sometimes disguised under other names - eg, Caput Mortuum instead of Mars Violet. Thing to do is look for the pigment number, and match it with otherwise described colours in manufacturers' lists. They're relatively inexpensive, or should be, and save a hell of a lot of mixing time if you can find them - I used to use the whole range from Daler Rowney artists' pigments, but they seem to have scaled back on them - however, you can make Mars Orange by mixing Mars Red and Mars Yellow. I am not an authority on Mars bars, I'm afraid - haven't the teeth for them.