turqoise or kingfisher blue

[Lesley]

Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??

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[Lesley]

turquoise even

[Bernard Peek]

On 24/01/12 17:14, Lesley wrote:
> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??

I would have thought that cerulean blue with a touch of chrome yellow
should do it.



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b...@shrdlu.com

[JonG]

Lesley wrote:
> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??
>

Sorry, no:

http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=8290

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[Ivan D. Reid]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:14:48 -0000, Lesley <les...@jellygnomesDOTco.uk>
wrote in <VA.0000003...@jellygnomesdotco.uk>:

> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??

According to Unix:

Turquoise: #40E0D0
Dark turquoise: #00CED1
Medium turquoise: #48D1CC
Pale turquoise: #AFEEEE

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[Skipweasel]

In article <VA.0000003...@jellygnomesdotco.uk>,
les...@jellygnomesDOTco.uk says...

> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??
>

http://www.wikihow.com/Mix-Colors-to-Get-Turquoise

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[EMB]

On 25/01/2012 6:14 a.m., Lesley wrote:
> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??
>

Pint of turps, 2 kingfishers, blend for 1 millifortnight?

[Richard Robinson]

IRTA "Kingfisher blues".
I said, I woke up this morning and read it as "kingfisher blues".

With a first line like that, I ain't got much to lose.


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[Harry Vaderchi]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:48:00 -0000, Richard Robinson
<rich...@privacy.net> wrote:

> EMB said:
>> On 25/01/2012 6:14 a.m., Lesley wrote:
>>> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
>>> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??
>>>
>> Pint of turps, 2 kingfishers, blend for 1 millifortnight?
>
> IRTA "Kingfisher blues".
> I said, I woke up this morning and read it as "kingfisher blues".
>
> With a first line like that, I ain't got much to lose.

after a draught, I had a big laugh

but now I'm guebjvat hc all sorts of hues

I thangyew I'll be here all... ere where did everyone go?

>


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[Bertie Doe]

"Skipweasel" wrote in message
news:MPG.29891c95e...@news.eternal-september.org...

In article <VA.0000003...@jellygnomesdotco.uk>,
les...@jellygnomesDOTco.uk says...
>> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
>> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??
>>
>
>http://www.wikihow.com/Mix-Colors-to-Get-Turquoise
>

I'm a bit colour blind. I can identify the green and the blue in the above,
but when it was mixed, I had no clue as to the colour.
My first job after school was in a drawing office. One of the guys was
totally colour blind. He saw everything in monochrome.

[Tony Haynes]

On Jan 24, 8:34 pm, Znep <E-0C001302-441...@cleopatra.co.uk> wrote:
> In uk.rec.sheds,  (Lesley) wrote in
> <VA.0000003a.0f1bb...@jellygnomesdotco.uk>::

>
> >Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
> >specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??
>

> To a 5-litre tub of white emulsion, add one kingfisher.  Stir and sieve
> through muslin.
> --
he messenger."
> (Charlie Kaufman on Cypherpunks list)

Tried that experientially. It came out pink.

Tone

[Lesley]

I now have a form of Turquoise.. now working on different shades.. so
cheers for that.. and a good link.. :-)

[Lesley]

In article <rc5uh7ppdlgrt5nhh...@4ax.com>, Znep wrote:
> To a 5-litre tub of white emulsion, add one kingfisher. Stir and sieve
> through muslin.

sounds like "Your lupins or your life" scenario.. if only..

[Redrawn Buns]

Bertie Doe wrote:

> I'm a bit colour blind. I can identify the green and the blue in the
> above, but when it was mixed, I had no clue as to the colour.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/doghouse_color_wheel_altered.png

[Skipweasel]

In article <9obgm7...@mid.individual.net>, monteb...@ntl.com
says...

> One of the guys was
> totally colour blind. He saw everything in monochrome.
>
>

I went to fpubby with someone like that. He'd obviously not been to my
optician, though, who said I had the worst colour vision he'd met.

Odd, 'cos apart from minor occasions (very orangish reds on resistors,
mostly) I don't have any trouble with it. I'm convinced that there are
more flavours of colour vision than accounted for in the mainstream
texts and that there are some mutants/variants in the population who
have a perfectly acceptable but different visible gamut. A slight
difference in the photopsins might shift the peak of the spectral
response a bit - enough to mean that the response to colours would be
subtly different.

[Richard Robinson]

Lesley said:
> In article <rc5uh7ppdlgrt5nhh...@4ax.com>, Znep wrote:
>> To a 5-litre tub of white emulsion, add one kingfisher. Stir and sieve
>> through muslin.
>
> sounds like "Your lupins or your life" scenario.. if only..

Dick Lupin. And his trusty horse, Black Moss.

[Fiona Witty]

Yes, I'm sure you are right. I have a friend (female) who can pick out a
much wider range of blues than anyone else I know, except her daughter.
Her son is colourblind. We think that on one of her X chromosomes the
red detecting gene has a mutation which makes it pick up green instead,
but a different range to her normal green detector. The son has that
one, and the daughter has the other. I know we found some evidence that
this is possible, possibly on
http://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html, but I can't find the right
place just now. It's an interesting site though, and probably has the
answer to Lesley's original question if she has several days to spare!

--
Fiona

[Nick Odell]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:04:53 -0000, Skipweasel <thew...@theshed.com>
wrote:

YAMYA I see things in colour but I wouldn't say that I 'think' in
colour since that's probably the last adjective I would use to
describe something. I know I have actual red/brown colour blindness
but I find that I can work out what a colour is by reference to other
colours. Resistor colour codes are no problem: there's a limited range
of possibilities and - for example - if 'this' band is orange then
'that' one must be green etc etc etc.

It's a struggle but I have work-arounds. In my day-job I often have to
touch-in colour on musical instruments and so far (forty-four years
and counting...) nobody has said something like ...but why have you
painted green spots on my red guitar?


Nick

[Nick Odell]

Talking of pink...

And <threadmerge> with the Cortina song elsewhere - a question

The Casa Rosada or 'Pink House' in Buenos Aires from which Evita,
amongst many others, addressed the crowds is something of an enigma.
At the time it was built, the two opposing political parties, the
blanqueos (whites) and colorados (reds (yes, I know colorado doesn't
mean red, but then this is a language that uses vino tinto to mean red
wine, okay?(and tinto doesn't mean red either))) were murderously and
bloodily locked against each other. The president of the day decided
that this palace should be painted pink to represent both parties
living in harmony (ha, ha, ha) with each other.

Legend has it that the pink was made by mixing red bull's blood with
the white plaster.

My gut reaction (apart from the _other_ gut reaction of euwgh! and
yuck!) is to think that the blood would pretty soon turn brown or even
black so my question is: can blood be used as a red additive like
this? And if so, why doesn't it turn?

Nick

[Skipweasel]

In article <ra05i7d38klhjss1f...@4ax.com>,
gurzhfvp...@ntlworld.com.invalid says...

> Resistor colour codes are no problem: there's a limited range
> of possibilities and - for example - if 'this' band is orange then
> 'that' one must be green etc etc etc.

It's the multipliers that catch me. If you've a 47R, 470R, 4k7 and a 47k
I can manage, but if they're in isolation I'm often stuck.

Talking of which, I just scored a half-dozen mixed bench-meters from
Freegle. Ex college, there's one millivolt and the rest of milli/micro
amp AC and DC.
I feel the urge for one of these...
http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/05/27/panel-meter-clock/
coming on.

[Richard Robinson]

Nick Odell said:
>>
> Talking of pink...
>
> And <threadmerge> with the Cortina song elsewhere - a question
>
> The Casa Rosada or 'Pink House' in Buenos Aires from which Evita,
> amongst many others, addressed the crowds is something of an enigma.
> At the time it was built, the two opposing political parties, the
> blanqueos (whites) and colorados (reds (yes, I know colorado doesn't
> mean red, but then this is a language that uses vino tinto to mean red
> wine, okay?(and tinto doesn't mean red either))) were murderously and
> bloodily locked against each other. The president of the day decided
> that this palace should be painted pink to represent both parties
> living in harmony (ha, ha, ha) with each other.
>
> Legend has it that the pink was made by mixing red bull's blood with
> the white plaster.
>
> My gut reaction (apart from the _other_ gut reaction of euwgh! and
> yuck!) is to think that the blood would pretty soon turn brown or even
> black so my question is: can blood be used as a red additive like
> this? And if so, why doesn't it turn?

There are pink houses in Suffolk, I've been told Bull's Blood is the
explanation there, too. Hey, it was you started the wine names thing.

[Rusty Hinge]

Lesley wrote:
> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??

Royal bloo or perhaps cerulean with a touch of grass green (if you're
hfvat watercolours).

--
Rusty Hinge

[Bernard Peek]

On 27/01/12 13:50, Znep wrote:
> In uk.rec.sheds, (Nick Odell) wrote in
> <js25i75ggq0ciim0j...@4ax.com>::

>
>>
>> Legend has it that the pink was made by mixing red bull's blood with
>> the white plaster.
>>
>> My gut reaction (apart from the _other_ gut reaction of euwgh! and
>> yuck!) is to think that the blood would pretty soon turn brown or even
>> black so my question is: can blood be used as a red additive like
>> this? And if so, why doesn't it turn?
>

> Doesn't oxidise, perhaps, when mixed with plaster?

Haemoglobin changes colour when it reacts with other chemicals. There
might be something in the plaster that turns it red.

--
Bernard Peek
b...@shrdlu.com

[JonG]

Skipweasel wrote:

> Talking of which, I just scored a half-dozen mixed bench-meters from
> Freegle.

Talking of which myself, I recently got a replacement multimeter from
TLC-direct. The temperature probe was clearly giving very dodgy
readings, and the capacitor/ transistor checked using the same sockets
did not jbex.

I phoned them Monday afternoon, got emailed a reply form and a link to a
reply-paid label. I posted it back after 5PM Monday, and the replacement
arrived before Midday on Wednesday.

So TLC-direct join Amazon and Gizoo on my "No-Nonsense Problem Sort-Out"
list, and I commend them for it.

[R C Nesbit]

Lesley spoke:

> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??

And this, dear readers, is what it was all for!

http://flic.kr/p/bm66Rz


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If you can fake that, you've got it made

[Richard Robinson]

R C Nesbit said:
> Lesley spoke:
>> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
>> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??
>
> And this, dear readers, is what it was all for!
>
> http://flic.kr/p/bm66Rz

N!ce.

[Adrian]

In message <VA.0000389...@ukrm.net>, R C Nesbit <sp...@ukrm.net>
writes

>Lesley spoke:
>> Silly question but does any one know how to mix turqoise or more
>> specifically kingfisher blue?? as in kingfishers??
>
>And this, dear readers, is what it was all for!
>
>http://flic.kr/p/bm66Rz
>
>

<applauds>


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On 27 Jan,

JonG <ne...@dentrassi-lodge.org.uk> wrote:

>
> So TLC-direct join Amazon and Gizoo on my "No-Nonsense Problem Sort-Out"
> list, and I commend them for it.
>

I've had a couple of errors from them, sorted out amicably faster than others
take to deliver the first thyme. I commend them TAAAW.



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