Tag: PR102 – Natural Red Iron Oxide

Lemon Yellow (Nickel Titanate) – Winsor and Newton

Lemon Yellow (Nickel Titanate) – Winsor and Newton

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 

Dr Round’s Bespoke Watercolours

Dr Round’s Bespoke Watercolours

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 

Making Watercolours

Making Watercolours

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 

Nostalgia of Pastels

Nostalgia of Pastels

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