...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Here you will find a series of posts cataloguing various pigments used in artistic materials, with a focus on the pigment properties rather than specific preparations.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo, after an introduction and an exploration of natural inorganic pigments, we now turn our attention to natural organic pigments. Here, of course things could become more complex as we noted previously. The natural inclination and one I have seen in some of the extant …
Reading Time: 9 minutesPreviously, we discussed some basic ways of categorising pigments, looking at the organic/inorganic and natural/synthetic definitions and then progressing a little into qualities in use. I am going to continue this, in a series of four further posts, diving a little deeper in the categorisations …
Reading Time: 12 minutesGetting to the bottom of how pigments (and indeed different preparations thereof) behave ultimately can become a bit of a rabbit hole. I will aim in this post to wander, perhaps circuitously, through some of my thoughts and considerations when exploring and using different pigments …