> I guess the easiest things to experiment with would be pure chemicals that are
> the exact shade of the color.   Carmine, mauve, fuchsia, orpiment, ....
> Art stores usually have oil paints based on these exact pigments, which is
> amazing given that they're based on lead, chromium, mercury, cadmium, etc.
>

Not to mention some eye makup based on antimonium (blue) and arsenic 
(white). Heavily used in classical times. The health hasard been 
balanced with the fact that they may prevent one from going totaly and 
irrevocably blind.

There is also uranium red. Broadly used in glazing from the 20's to the 
50's.

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