What is silver? What is gold?

brianlux

OK, I know this is a strange question but, what is silver? And what is gold? The colors I mean. Black and white makes grey. So what is silver? Yellow and green make a yellower green. So what is gold?

Listening to Blair 1523 and Dimentia 13 made me ask these question. No, true!

The Juggler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wgosPXVWUM

brianlux

The Juggler wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wgosPXVWUM

It's like Christmas all over again.

Who Princess

brianlux wrote:

OK, I know this is a strange question but, what is silver? And what is gold? The colors I mean. Black and white makes grey. So what is silver? Yellow and green make a yellower green. So what is gold?

Listening to Blair 1523 and Dimentia 13 made me ask these question. No, true!

Didn't you ever have one of these?

Bathgate66

Silver & Gold

In the shithouse a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down.
If only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town, tin can town.
No stars in the black night
Looks like the sky fall down.
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground, chained to the ground.

The warden says "The exodus sold."
If you want a way out...
Silver and gold, silver and gold.

Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor.
I scream at the silence
It's crawling, crawls under the door.
There's a rope around my neck
And there's a trigger in your gun.
Jesus, say something!
I am someone, I am someone.

Captains and Kings in the ship's hold
They came to collect
Silver and gold, silver and gold.

I seen the coming and the going
Seen the captains and the Kings.
Seen their navy blue uniforms
Seen them bright and shiny things, bright and shiny things.

The temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you've got
These chains no longer bind me
Nor the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free (set them free).

A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts - For Silver and Gold
You can stop the world from turning around
You just gotta pay a penny in the pound

STAYSEA

brianlux wrote:

OK, I know this is a strange question but, what is silver? And what is gold? The colors I mean. Black and white makes grey. So what is silver? Yellow and green make a yellower green. So what is gold?

Listening to Blair 1523 and Dimentia 13 made me ask these question. No, true!

The colors of light?
The colors of paint?
The colors of tangible objects?

The recipes/ or mixes for each Media is vastly different.

More info... on which kind of silver or gold.?

Lighting mixes are the most confusing.

81

have you checked with that element table

brianlux

Who Princess wrote:

brianlux wrote:

OK, I know this is a strange question but, what is silver? And what is gold? The colors I mean. Black and white makes grey. So what is silver? Yellow and green make a yellower green. So what is gold?

Listening to Blair 1523 and Dimentia 13 made me ask these question. No, true!

Didn't you ever have one of these?

Well, sort of. We got the "basic" version. Which is probably why I have this ongoing curiosity about how to mix colors to make colors!

brianlux

81 wrote:

have you checked with that element table

No, but I'd check a color-mixing table if I had one. Or maybe I should just buy a few gold coins and melt them down to paint with.

STAYSEA

AH ha! paint.. I'll have an answer soon.

Who Princess

brianlux wrote:

Who Princess wrote:

brianlux wrote:

OK, I know this is a strange question but, what is silver? And what is gold? The colors I mean. Black and white makes grey. So what is silver? Yellow and green make a yellower green. So what is gold?

Listening to Blair 1523 and Dimentia 13 made me ask these question. No, true!

Didn't you ever have one of these?

Well, sort of. We got the "basic" version. Which is probably why I have this ongoing curiosity about how to mix colors to make colors!

Having the full 64 box was a big status symbol when I was in grade school!
I never had one either.

STAYSEA

from wiki..

"silver is a metallic color although it would be possible to mix a small amout of black to white as an experiment


I tried using some gold paint ( or yellow) and extremely little black with mostly white and got a semi shiny gray color."

"Silver would be nearly impossible to mix, since it isn't really a color, but a "metal." Unlike green or brown which could be mixed relatively easily, you would have to buy special products making it almost cost prohibitive. It would be much easier to just buy the paint. If you can't afford to spend any extra money at this time, try painting them gold (you can mix a deep yellow) and use some golden glitter, or simply paint them a color. White on a dark background would provide an intense contrast."

"Metallic paints are made of all kinds of exotic materials like ground up dried fish scales and stuff that would be difficult to buy. If you have left over iridescent eye shadow and clear paint base(Polymer medium) you could mix them, but that probably would cost more than the paint"

You don't even want to see what model train enthusiast's have to say. They paint little train toys as a hobby! Now on to gold... I'm kidding. We all know it's tricky. I made gold on a photograph I developed. I left it in a chemical for 3 days (I forgot about it). My photography teacher was very impressed, then she was angry because it was a mistake and I couldn't tell her how it happened.

My best answer is do it by accident, or buy it.

whispering hands

81 wrote:

have you checked with that element table

You mean the Periodic Table of Elements?

whispering hands

Oh and STAYSEA is correct.. Except that the metals are made up of
such unique mineral compounds that there are no two
ounces of either alike until they are smelted...
I say go with her suggestions, she's a smart one miss STAYSEA!

STAYSEA

whispering hands wrote:

Oh and STAYSEA is correct.. Except that the metals are made up of
such unique mineral compounds that there are no two
ounces of either alike until they are smelted...
I say go with her suggestions, she's a smart one miss STAYSEA!

But I wasted my life according to a member..

I want to buy him a giant kite he can fly... :roll:

brianlux

No cheating! It must be mixed!

Someone around here suggested, "Maybe they use real silver in silver paint."

To which I replied, "But what about all those millions of gate fold "Wheels of Fire" LPs that were mostly silver colored. Real silver in all those? I don't think so!"

Buzzer sound.

Try again!

(And while your at it, would someone please tell that full moon to go to sleep so I can too! )

STAYSEA

brianlux wrote:

No cheating! It must be mixed!

Someone around here suggested, "Maybe they use real silver in silver paint."

To which I replied, "But what about all those millions of gate fold "Wheels of Fire" LPs that were mostly silver colored. Real silver in all those? I don't think so!"

Buzzer sound.

Try again!

(And while your at it, would someone please tell that full moon to go to sleep so I can too! )

I feel a bad moon rising.. I feel trouble on it's way...

brianlux

STAYSEA wrote:

brianlux wrote:

No cheating! It must be mixed!

Someone around here suggested, "Maybe they use real silver in silver paint."

To which I replied, "But what about all those millions of gate fold "Wheels of Fire" LPs that were mostly silver colored. Real silver in all those? I don't think so!"

Buzzer sound.

Try again!

(And while your at it, would someone please tell that full moon to go to sleep so I can too! )

I feel a bad moon rising.. I feel trouble on it's way...

Take a break from Green River and listen to Silver and Gold.

This thread meanders like a stream...