One of my favorite colors is blue. It lies between violet and green on the light spectrum.
I love blue!!! I wonder where the pigment comes from in the earth?
It comes from many sources. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in both Ancient Egypt and later on in The Renaissance to make various pigments.
That's interesting. What kind of art media was it first made into?
The Ancient Egyptians used it for jewellery and ornaments and during the Renaissance it was used to make the pigment ultramarine, a very expensive pigment.
Oh wow so much uses! So how old is the color blue exactly?
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes (often identified with Narmer). The history of ancient Egypt occurred as a series of stable kingdoms, separated by periods of relative instability known as Intermediate Periods: the Old Kingdom of the Early Bronze
An optical effect called Tyndall scattering explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective.
Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the eighth century Chinese artists used cobalt blue to colour fine blue and white porcelain. In the Middle Ages, European artists used