Browsing All Posts By Evie Hatch
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Features & EditorialsGeorgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is often credited with being the ‘Mother of American Modernism’. She is best known for her large-scale, billowing flower paintings and the many landscapes she ...
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Watercolour PaintingThe new line of Michael Harding watercolours is over 20 years in the making and it’s finally here. I had the opportunity to try 24 colours out of ...
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Studio and GeneralPrussian Blue (pigment index number PB27) is deep and inky colour. Its influence can be seen across art history– it is the characteristic pigment of Picasso’s Blue Period, ...
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Studio and GeneralVenetian Red is one of many earthy-red colours named after a geographical location– other examples include English Red, Pompeii Red, Indian Red, and Pozzuoli Red. These colours are ...
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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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