Browsing All Posts By Evie Hatch
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Studio and GeneralRembrandt’s colour palette was characterised by dark browns and black, earthy yellows, and deep reds– colours that give his paintings an instantly recognisable atmosphere of warm darkness. This ...
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Features & EditorialsNo matter the method of paper-making, at the beginning of the process is the production of paper stock. The main constituent of the stock is pulp, a fibrous ...
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Studio and GeneralArtist pigments are ever-changing, with new pigments being discovered and old ones falling out of use, but despite this many black pigments have changed relatively little. The earliest ...
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Studio and GeneralBrown pigments have been available to artists since prehistory in the form of clay earths containing manganese and iron oxides. The use of brown in European painting peaked ...
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Studio and GeneralIn antiquity, green was available to artists in the form of natural green earth and minerals such as malachite. The ancient greeks created Verdigris by exposing copper to ...
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Studio and GeneralThroughout history, blue has been one of the most sought-after artist pigments. It occurs infrequently in nature, and the first blue pigments were made from minerals like azurite ...
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Studio and GeneralViolet lies between red and blue on the colour wheel, and while it can be mixed with a combination of those two colours, a single-pigment violet can be ...
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Studio and GeneralRed has been available to artists since prehistory in the form of red earth, but throughout art history the colour red has often been characterised by pigments with ...
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Features & EditorialsUnison Colour was founded by artist John Hersey in 1987. Light and colour were a life-long obsession, and when he found that industrially made pastels could not give ...
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Studio and GeneralWhile various oranges can be mixed with yellow and red, a single pigment orange can offer more vibrancy and create cleaner mixtures than any mixed orange. Apart from ...
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Studio and GeneralOf all of the groups in the Pigment Colour Index, yellow is one of the largest. The first yellow pigment was Yellow Ochre, an earth pigment containing hydrated ...
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Studio and GeneralThe colour white was likely first used in prehistoric art in the form of chalk – naturally occurring calcium carbonate. The preparation of lead-based white pigments was first ...
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