Chromium Oxide Green is a useful colour for landscape painters but is sometimes overlooked in other applications because of its dull shade.
This pigment has a very pleasing olive green hue and has been in commercial use as an artist’s pigment since the 1800’s. It is a synthetic inorganic pigment made from metal oxides. Very opaque, it has fairly low tinting strength. Chromium Oxide Green pigment is often used in the making of coatings for tennis courts as it is both inexpensive and lightfast. Its opacity lends a unique quality to mixes, for example, chromium oxide green mixed with quinacridone red makes a very opaque brown with an unusual rich colour. It is a comparatively expensive colour compared to other dull earth tone colours, but inexpensive compared to other greens.