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INCARNADINE
in·car·na·dine
inˈkärnədīn/

noun
a red color.

adjective
of a red color.

verb
color (something) red.

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.”
-Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2

There is a scene in Macbeth where the title character cuts his hand and muses that were he to dip it into the ocean, might he make the whole sea turn red? Such is the pretense of any painter approaching a blank surface when their brush is soaked heavy with a color in the range of red. From orange to purple with …