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Cerulean Blue

Castle Arts Soft Touch Teal & Aqua cool

Castle Arts Soft Touch 100 Cerulean Blue is a light vivid teal colored pencil in the Teal & Aqua family. It sits in the lighter value range, making it well-suited for tropical water, turquoise, sea glass. Cool undertones make it well-suited to shadows, skies, and atmospheric depth.

Teal & Aqua family Cool temperature 65% lightness
Tropical waterTurquoiseSea glassAqua accentsOcean
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Marker Facts

Marker Name
Cerulean Blue
Color Family
Teal & Aqua
Temperature
Cool
Lightness
65%
Saturation
91%
Palettes Using This Marker
0

Suggested Blend Ladder

Teal & Aqua family — layer from shadow to highlight for smooth gradients.

Shadow Side
098
Primary Blue L64%
048
Cobalt Turquoise L64%
Current Marker
100
Cerulean Blue L65%

Works Well With

Shadows
052
Viridian
-25 lightness
Analogous Colors
104
Terre Verde Deep
16° hue shift
106
Jade Green
19° hue shift
042
Prussian Blue
20° hue shift
043
Ultramarine
20° hue shift
Complementary Accent

Opposite on the color wheel. Useful for contrast, focal points, and making warm colors stand out.

116
Raw Umber
opposite hue
020
Tangerine
opposite hue
017
Cadmium Orange
opposite hue
079
Cadmium Orange Deep
opposite hue

Compatible Palettes

Curated palettes where 100 fits the color story by mood and hue.

💫 Pastel Voltage
Bubblegum pink, warm yellow, lilac, aqua, and cream with a grape-purple charge.
Art Style
🧁 Sugar Rush Kitchen
Sunshine yellow, candy pink, sky blue, cherry coral, and cocoa brown.
Cozy
👻 Icy Haunt
Moonlit aqua, spectral mint, stormy blue, and graveyard violet create a frozen haunting.
Seasonal
⛽ Desert Gas Station
Bleached tan. Heat shimmer. Rust and old diesel.
Environment
🧺 Laundromat
Tube-lit blue at 11 p.m., dryers tumbling behind a row of orange plastic chairs nobody is in.
Environment
🕊 Sunday Garden Stillness
Sage and powder sky over wet grass before anyone in the house is awake.
Emotional
🎨 Watercolor Airy
Botanical study left to dry on cold-press paper; pigment pooling at the edges and the rest fading to white.
Art Style
🏪 Fluorescent Store
Drugstore tubes humming at 3 a.m.; every face the color of nausea.
Lighting

Similar Colors in Teal & Aqua

047
Cerulean Blue Light
light vivid teal
#42D4FA
099
Cerulean Blue Middle
light vivid teal
#45D7F9
098
Primary Blue
light vivid blue
#4CC5F8
097
Intense Blue
light vivid teal
#44D2F6
103
Cypress Green
mid vivid blue
#45BBEA
048
Cobalt Turquoise
light vivid teal
#4FDEF6
105
Teal Green
mid vivid teal
#42D7E6
101
Cobalt Turquoise Green
light vivid teal
#4AE2EB

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