Simply rub the bar of compound on your strop.
Chromium oxide green substitute.
Green honing compound is easy to use.
It also can cause respiratory problems when dust is inhaled.
This fine chromium oxide and aluminum oxide abrasive is used when you want a polished honed edge on your tools and it can be used on leather wood or synthetic strops.
Chromium oxide green absorbs a small amount of oil 26 g oil per 100 g of pigment.
I don t use chromium green as it is a very opaque green though it is an interesting colour.
Everything from rembrandt green chromium oxide green viridian and prussian green and a few others.
In fact an unsaturated green color is easily made by mixing a lemon or middle yellow with a touch of black pigment which shifts the color straight toward the center of the wheel.
Dull dark chromium oxide green works on yellows in a similar way and produces lively but delicate greenish yellows and leaf greens.
At times i ve even eliminated green entirely from my palette and simply mixed all my greens from blues yellows and reds.
If i use an extra greens for special effects they are the primatek colours green apatite genuine and serpentine genuine these have a little of the look of chromium oxide but are far more variable and granulating so far more interesting.
What s up with chromium oxide green.