Colour Study _ Hooker's Green

May definitely means 'green' to me. Usually it's all the rain we have at this time that makes the garden look so refreshed!

The pigment Hookers Green was named after its inventor, William Hooker, a botanical illustrator for the Royal Horticultural Society in the early 1800s.
He created this ‘perfect’ green to use as a dark leaf green in his botanical paintings of fruit commissioned by the RHS. This colour is still popular and widely available today.

Hooker's Green and Sap Green are essential greens to me when painting plants. But once you start to look carefully, you can see such a wide range of green shades!

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