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India Ink, Hobby Lobby for sure. That being said, concrete varies in color by age and where it came from/is. Around here some of it has a reddi***int due to clay in the soil staining it and by clay being introduced with the sand and or rock. This is esp. true of the old concrete made before the local companies got big and began importing rock and sand from other places. Fresh concrete here now is the standard gray but on roads it slowly turns reddish due to bubba's dirty 4X4. In the 1980"s and before the roads would also have a black (gray) strip in the middle of the lanes from oil leaking from seals. Today this black streak had almost disappeared. In the 40's and 50's it was really black and greasy and was the basis of the old "wiped his bike out on a greasy strip" saying. Tires also effect the color of roads. Sometimes they leave a gray trail, and other times they keep the concrete fresh and polished looking. Then there are scratches or burnouts. Ant there is exposed aggegrate where colored creek rock is exposed in colored concrete. Concrete road is hard to color correctly, I think water is easier myself. I lean towards asphalt to avoid it. When I must do it I use plaster and stain it with acrylic washes. FRED
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