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Hooker's green

Hooker's green

9.2
Green paint that artists make by mixing blue and yellow
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : verde de Hooker
  • The artist prefers Hooker's greens for landscape painting.
  • Hooker's green and indigo
  • Hooker's green or sap
  • Hooker's green dark

Examples

  • She mixed a touch of Hooker's green into her palette to deepen the shadows in the trees.

  • When painting foliage, many artists mix Hooker's green with yellow for a more natural look.

  • Many watercolor artists prefer Hooker's green for its vibrant yet natural hue.

  • The painter chose Hooker's green to capture the lush foliage of the landscape.

  • I love using Hooker's green in my paintings.

  • Artists often prefer using Hooker's green for its vibrant tone in landscape paintings.

  • In her latest artwork, she used Hooker's green to create depth in the trees.

Surface Forms

Hooker's green singular

Morphology

Hooker's + green

The construction is a possessive eponym + the colour 'green', so a learner who knows 'green' will readily infer it denotes a type or shade of green (a green pigment). While the historical origin or exact mixture (Prussian blue + gamboge) is not predictable, the basic meaning 'a kind of green' follows a transparent, compositional pattern.

Etymology

Hooker's green may come from a 19th-century artist named Hooker who mixed a blue and a yellow to make a natural leaf green. That's why the name means 'a green artists use for painting plants'.