Crimson Earth 2

Earth-2 was originally dreamed up as a way to explain why Flash, Green Lantern, and a few other DC heroes of the '50s and '60s were so different from the characters that bore the same name during World War II, and I appreciated that this show's version of Earth-2 had fashions and architecture straight out of the '40s, even if the technology was more advanced than what's available on Earth-1. But beyond the production and costume design, there didn't seem to be much of a unifying theme to the differences between the two earths in the way DC usually tries to have in the comics (Earth-1 is more science fiction, Earth-2 more magical, Earth-3 flips the identities of all the heroes and villains, etc.). Here, some good characters were now evil, and some relatively passive ones were now more active (Iris is the cop, Caitlin is a supervillain), but there wasn't a clear through line. It was just, as Harry warned before he went through the portal with Barry and Cisco, everything is different!

Crimson Earth 2

Still, you could tell the actors were having fun playing very different versions of themselves. Jesse L. Martin got to sing (which is a thing he does well), Candice Patton got to use a gun, Carlos Valdes got to play coolly all-knowing, and Danielle Panabaker got to let completely loose as Killer Frost. It was an entertaining hour, even if Barry's reasoning for replacing the Earth-2 Barry never made much sense, and there were loads of Easter eggs along the way, particularly during the trip between the earths, where we could glimpse, among other people and things, Supergirl (thus establishing the shows as being on different earths and solving whatever qualms I had about the upcoming crossover), a future version of Green Arrow, the John Wesley Shipp version of the Flash, and a Legion of Super Heroes flight ring. (Speaking of the Legion, was that supposed to be Ferro Lad in the cage near Barry and Jesse, or another DC character who wears an iron mask?)

The correct answer depends on whether you are looking for something that feels and behaves just like Alizarin Crimson (in which case buy a tube called permanent alizarin crimson) or just looking to be able to mix more magenta shaded hues.

A car detonates and your television flattensthe aftermath, a car that is not a car anymorebut the mouth of a crater. Bodies too, bodiesonce upright with breath in their mouths.A car detonates on Tuesday, on Wednesday, [End Page 156] two days later a car detonates and bodiesflattened under concrete, crimson marblingthe road. Spring to summer and cars to not-cars,breaths to not-breaths, to blood in the mouths.Car on the road and you behind the wheel,a song in your mouth. The song is greenand goes out the window where the horizonis flattened. Your car goes and the songgoes and summer hammers down its heat,sun on your windshield and the constellationof insects flattened by speed. No televisionor news reels. Just song and highways,just landscape. A hawk in the dusk-lighthovering seven stories above the crimson earth. [End Page 157]

The history of alizarin crimson begins with the madder plant. The natural red dye, made from the root of the madder plant, was first used as a dye thousands of years ago. It was also made into a pigment by fixing the dye onto a white powder, such as chalk and alum, to produce a lake pigment. The result is an insoluble pigment suitable for making paint. The history of the dye from madder root is discussed in Madder Lake.

The oil absorption of alizarin crimson is 59 grams of linseed oil to 100 grams of pigment. due to the ultra fineness of the pigment, it is difficult to disperse effectively without the aid of machinery. 041b061a72