WHICH?Pigment Characteristics (I feel like giving you a warning that this section is for those really interested in that stuff!) Equipped with an understanding of their chemical nicknames, let’s now go back to the four black pigments/paints commonly found in art stores: Carbon and Lamp Black, Ivory and Bone Black, and tackle the four characteristics…
Tag: natural-pigments
Some pigments are natural, some are synthetic
WHICH?Pigment Characteristics In my hippy-happy store in Byron Bay, Australia, I regularly get a request for “natural” pigments, to which I sometimes reply cheekily: do you mean natural as in made from arsenic? mercury? copper? lead? or perhaps sulphur? These have all been used to make pigments and are found naturally on the planet! But that’s generally…
in bed with mona lisa 