ultramarine

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The beddejak in “Woman in Blue Reading a Letter,” Martine tells me, is painted with ultramarine, the rarest and most expensive of the blue pigments that would have been available to a 17th-century Dutch painter.

From New York Times

The etching is done with a mixture of ultramarine blue and soft black ink, which creates the blue-black color of the trunk and leaf outlines.

From Seattle Times

The blue is artificial ultramarine combined with titanium white.

From Washington Post

The popular and readily available variety ‘Victoria Blue’ is a compact grower that blooms prolifically up until frost with lavenderlike wands of deep ultramarine blooms.

From Seattle Times

As we talked, the greens blued into ultramarine or yellowed into chartreuse.

From New York Times