this is the first blue pigment successfully invented in over 200 years
it's called YinMn blue and unbelievably i got my hands on some and we're gonna review
it now there are two things throughout history that human kind has always had trouble finding
first one being aliens man that would be the day and the second thing is a blue pigment it's
surprisingly hard to find a blue pigment unlike red yellow brown all of which are easy to find in
nature that's not the case for a vibrant bright blue color and there's been a whole entire host
of flops throughout history where people have tried to make blue pigments starting with the
ancient egyptians they had egyptian blue it was used all throughout ancient egypt and ancient rome
just this beautiful prolific light blue color and of course during the middle ages they were like
uh-uh we don't want any of that science devil magic around here and they proceeded to either
lose or destroy all instructions of egyptian blue and how to make it forever and still to this day
scientists don't exactly know and will never know 100% how egyptian blue was ever made the
next blue color that came out was in the middle ages and if you've played minecraft you already
know what's coming lapis lazuli and it's a good color it's still around today actually but the
problem with it is it's only mined out of a random cave in afghanistan and it has a limited supply
and in current day they do make it synthetically but during the process of making it it releases
an air pollutant called sulfur dioxide in fact when they make ultramarine blue they actually
have to like monitor it to make sure only a certain amount of air pollutant comes from it
so that's great then in the early 1800s we get my personal favorite cobalt blue and throughout
history and even now today it happens a lot with potter's if you don't wear the right protective
gear and you inhale a lot a lot of cobalt blue you can actually get cobalt poisoning
and don't get me wrong not every blue pigment is bad like for example there's cerulean which is a
really nice pigment but it's kind of transparent and it leans more towards turquoise not a true
blue there's prussian blue which is a really nice deep blue color and for the next 200 years
that was all the synthetic choices we had until 2009 that all changed at oregon state university
a lead chemist named mas subramanian and his graduate student andrew smith were just messing
around testing out the electronic properties of manganese as one does so in an oven they
mixed up the following ingredients they let it bake overnight at over 2000 degrees and in the
morning when they opened up the furnace they saw a never before seen brand new pure blue pigment
now unlike all the other pigments throughout history YinMn blue is absolutely incredible
firstly YinMn blue it blocks out uv rays meaning if you were painted on a house it would never
fade in the sun or the color will never fade on a painting it's also incredibly resistant to high
and low temperatures up to 2000 degrees so unless you're gonna like eat the paint into the sun it
should pretty much last you a lifetime it's simple and safe to manufacture it's safe for humans to
work with and recently here in america the epa announced that it's safe for the environment
therefore putting it on the markets not just for construction use but also for us artists too now
as you can imagine because it literally just came out and just got approved it's pretty hard for
us artists to get our hands on as of right now if you're an artist there's only three ways that you
can get it the first one is through golden paint company and you can't just order it online you
actually have to call a special hotline tell them what you want it for and if they approve you they
have to custom make it for you so yeah obviously i'm not cool enough to be on the special vip
golden paint list so we're gonna put an x in that the second way is through a website called the
italian art store and this one is literally sold out all the time and if you do happen to log on
and they have it in stock in the united states it's gonna cost you 170 dollars for one ounce
of paint capitalism baby and this leads me to the option that i was able to obtain the paint it's a
lot easier to buy the pigment itself especially on bulk so people have been getting the pure pigment
itself hand making the paint themselves and if you're lucky you might be able to find it on
etsy which i was beyond lucky to find it and after about three four weeks of waiting it finally came
in the mail guys i'm about to show you what YinMn blue looks like for the very first time
oh there it is oh that is so cool the seller sent a little free
300 pound cold press watercolor paper that's that's pretty nice unfortunately i accidentally
kind of like cut through a little bit of it but hey it's still working really nice
that's cute comes with a little card with YinMn blue
oh it's tiny oh it's magnetic oh that's a really nice little touch now like i said right now it's
kind of difficult to find YinMn blue because it's just so new so rare and just released so from
the seller that i purchased from this little guy right here of authentic YinMn blue cost 45 bucks
this one by far is the most expensive paint i have literally ever bought in my life and plus
it's watercolor which lasts a really really really long time so i'm probably barely gonna be able
to even make a dent with how much of this that i'm gonna use you know what i mean now my very
first impression of it is that it looks a lot like ultramarine blue like that same really pretty deep
blue except it's a little less purpley like it's a little bit more of a neutral blue really really
pretty stuff so let's go ahead and test this little guy out i love that i love how it just like
falls hehe
holy moly look at it in the sun wow
wow this color is like so insanely blue
that i'm gonna have to and i rarely do this on my channel but i'm gonna have to take a picture
photoshop it to what my eyes see that way you at home can see what it looks
like
all right i actually went to my local craft store picked up some of the most common blue
pigments that i've mentioned throughout this video and we'll go ahead and compare them to
YinMn blue i really want to see how close or different these are all together so yeah
let's go ahead and see what that's all about starting with bob ross's favorite phthalo blue
kind of like oceanic turquoise in comparison next one will be
manganese blue hue which i don't think this one actually has any manganese in it since
yeah manganese i don't know i have the hardest time pronunciating this pigment it is so hard
oh wow this one is like pure turquoise
and for you guys who've seen my rarest paint colors in history you guys know the sketchy
pass behind it here's cobalt blue oh oh man oh my god that's like the same exact thing
oh my god it looks literally just like cobalt oh my gosh those are like identical there is
definitely a slight difference the cobalt is a little bit like just like the tiniest little bit
more yellow and of course as i mentioned it has like way more depth but i mean they look literally
almost the exact same all right next up will be prussian blue it's like black inside the palette
oh it's so pretty
as far as personal preferences go i prefer the prussian blue just because i like that color
but still as far as like a perfect blue YinMn blue is still way more blue and then lastly we
have ultramarine blue which i thought this one was going to be the most accurate but we'll see
oh yeah that one's like way different it's way more purple
so i actually do have one more dupe for you guys and this one is actually kind of unexpected and
supposedly this one might be the most accurate one and you right now actually might have this crayons
in 2016 crayola got rid of their famous dandelion color i personally was never a fan anyway so
goodbye irene and they replaced it with a new color which they modeled directly after yin min
blue called bluetiful i keep saying YinMn blue bluetiful blew this blue that and it's like i'm
losing track of all the times i'm saying it like it doesn't even sound like a real word
at this point it sounds like fake i don't know how to describe it having a blue crisis
alright so here's YnMn blue and here is bluetiful
it's dark and even whenever you compare it to like the darkest swatch it still isn't as
dark as well i guess it kind of is so yeah in my opinion it's not exactly 100% spot on
but i'm not gonna lie crayola does it again it's actually pretty close and i think that's
really cool that they put a brand new pigment color into crayons you know hi i'm back again
now usually at this point i would jump straight into the drawing portion but
there's something very important that you need to know about YinMn blue is so blue and it radiates
so much blueness my camera actually had a hard time color correcting so it saw so much blue
in the lens that it would transfer constantly to yellow it's such a true blue that my camera can't
even pick it up correctly you know what i mean so yeah here's the drawing process oh yay it worked
right
okay one last time hi first of all i don't know how i feel about this painting i kind
of like it i kind of don't i'm like really in between on it but what i am sure about
is this is literally one of the blue can you even see it this is literally one of
the bluest blues i have ever worked with i mean just looking at it under the sun
what the camera picks up and it's such a mind trip to think that this pigment will last
literally forever and i absolutely can't wait for the day that YinMn blue becomes a mainstream
pigment that you can get literally anywhere like at Walmart or whatever you know that's
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and yeah with that being said guys i hope you have a wonderful day and i will see you next video bye