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Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a cool yellow containing PY53 as a single pigment. It is: Pigment(s) PY53 was developed in the 1960s and is may be known as as Nickel Antimony Titanium Yellow Rutile or Nickel Titanium Oxide. It has the chemical formula NiO·Sb2O3·20TiO2 – this is …
Reading Time: 5 minutes So after the first tests with purchased pigments, I have gone up a level and foraged a few of my own and had a go an processing these as inspired by Found and Ground. Ultimately what you are doing here is getting the raw material …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve been thinking about making watercolours for a few months now. I am not sure why I make things difficult for myself at times, as this is plainly not the easiest way to acquire paints. I think some of this was stumbling across the interesting …
Reading Time: 3 minutes In my general obsessive search for the weird and wonderful in the world of colour and insatiable thirst for knowledge on a subject I have of course read up about many of the weird and wonderful materials that have been used to provide pigments, gemstones …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have, for a while been interested in the materials produced by Culture Hustle. I think I first heard of the paint from a facebook post by Joolz Denby, and then obviously discovered the somewhat amusing vantablack/pinkiest pink/black 2.0 etc comedy between Stuart Semple and …
Reading Time: 6 minutes I bought this little set of watercolours from The Range which I visted when chasing Freightliners recently, as I was taken in by the interesting and slightly different colours. It’s a bit of a niche set, and certainly not useful as the only set one …
Reading Time: 2 minutes On a breif visit to Shipley and Saltaire, plagued sadly by back problems, I was seduced by the art shop again and decided to buy some watercolours. This is something I have played with a little, though not for quite some time, though it is …