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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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Watercolour PaintingGouache is a versatile, quick drying, water-medium paint, originally created to dry to an opaque finish and provide matte, flat, highly pigmented colour straight out the tube. It ...
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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 GeneralUnderstanding the different brush shapes and fibre types can help you to make better and more informed decisions when investing in new brushes, so that you end up ...
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Art TechniqueIn the past couple of weeks the season has definitely turned from Summer to Autumn here in the UK , and with it comes characteristic shades of gold, ...
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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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PrintmakingThere is something beautifully simple about the linocut process although the prints it produces can be extremely intricate and complex. A print is created by carving a design ...
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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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Watercolour PaintingIn September, we asked watercolour painters Andrew Pitt and Gary Cook to test a few brushes of their choice from the Jackson’s watercolour range. To get the full ...
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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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