The color purple became associated with royalty because at one time only aristocrats could afford the expensive pigment. During Roman times, it took 4 million crushed mollusk shells to create one pound of purple pigment.
2. Oil paints
Those who loves this kind of famous art all know that oil paints don’t dry. Instead they harden due to oxidation, usually in about two weeks, and are ready to be varnished in roughly six months. However, sometimes it takes years for an oil painting to fully harden!
3. The discovery of a third color
The Greek philosopher Plato is credited with the discovery that you can mix two different paint colors together to produce a third color.
4. The very first painting
The first interior painting was done roughly 40,000 years ago in what is now France by prehistoric cave dwellers, who employed stencils in some of the work and even “spray-painted” by blowing paint through hollow bird bones.
5. Paint colors for healing
Do you know the awesome fact that various paint colors can help the body heal itself. For example, red can often help depressed people regain vigor, while green has been shown to relieve stress, for entertainment.
6. Shades of green
There tend to be more shades of green than any other in commercially available paint colors because the human eye can distinguish more variations of green than of any other color.
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