WHAT?I. What is paint? Paint is a concept, but surely you were all aware of that.In a hardware store, you might ask for paint for this or that. You are simply trying to find the best one for the support you have in mind to colour. In an art store, there might be some restrictions as to…
Why Me?
WHY? Sometimes I go to my store on a Sunday. The curtains are drawn, the place is cut off from the world, its hustle and bustle, of course, but too its smells. After just a few hours of confinement, all the artists’ ingredients, paints and mediums get a chance to exude their very own subtle…
Why Paint?
for all those I lovefor Vianney“something resiny, earthlike, and fragrant” Mine is the oldest profession in the world, and, dare I add, I’m not only good at the job, but it also gives me enormous pleasure. Now, don’t you grin as you might be confusing a painted woman, which was one of low morals (a…
Hues in Tubes (the book)
Dear community of colour lovers, makers, worshipers, whisperers and other multi-hued wizards… I have decided to put online my whole book about Paint (eight years of research and ninety thousand words!)I feel Hues in Tubes is done and interesting (Pigments! Binders! Paint making! History! Science! Art!… in short, just about everything of importance) and worthy…
in bed with… Unison
If you’re into vast skies and rolling hills covered with heather in bloom, exquisite man-made grey stone walls crisscrossing them, beige-grey stone houses with slate roofs in which you can just imagine the Brontë sisters writing their novels and, of course, sheep… Northumberland might be just right for you. (Read the fine print before moving…
Dear Pigment, (a love letter)
As I needed a link so that readers of the wonderful Institute of Making‘ s newsletter could read the full version… there it is! Dear Pigment, I thought I would give you an update of where I’m at right now. As you might have understood from all my probing, I’ve been researching you for quite…
in bed with… natural pigments
I know, I know, there should be caps to Natural and Pigments. It just looked more yummy this way and in bed with… natural pigments, just the thought, hey? Bit messy perhaps but ever so colourful! (In the mood for real beds and natural pigments? check out my ochre blog page) The droughty, scorching summer is…
In bed with… She-who-whispers-to-the-ochres, Heidi Gustafson
Just as I cross the border from Canada into the States, the sun emerges from the lake on my right… It’s beautiful, and I’m early. I stop for a coffee with a sunrise view, then drive leisurely along little country roads enjoying the farms and the stunning colours of autumn in Washington state. Yellows, oranges,…
Pigments on my bucket list…
I always found bucket lists an idiotic first world annoyingly greedy ‘even-if-it-costs-the-Earth-I-want-to-have-it-all’ sort of thing. Until I realised I had one! Mine of course, haha, is of the more educated type. My wish list comprises to be able to touch the medieval manuscripts in the Cambridge collection and A. Boogert’s sole copy of his Traité…
Munsell chips anyone?
Until a couple of months ago I hardly knew and cared even less about Albert Henry Munsell. Researching colour I had come across some of his beautifully painted charts and somehow knew he was relevant to colour theory but, despite the fact that he was obviously a name among only a handful or two that…
in bed with mona lisa 