Tag: Winsor and Newton Caput Mortuum Violet

Building Palletes Part 1 – Primary Triads

Building Palletes Part 1 – Primary Triads

Reading Time: 12 minutesThis is the first in a series of posts, leading up to a display and discussion of the various palletes (of which there are many) that I have acquired, put together and use in my watercolour practice. Both for the purposes of adding my opinions 

Lemon Yellow (Nickel Titanate) – Winsor and Newton

Lemon Yellow (Nickel Titanate) – Winsor and Newton

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis 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 

Daniel Smith Primatik Gemstone Watercolours

Daniel Smith Primatik Gemstone Watercolours

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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