Browsing Category Pigments
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Features & EditorialsSap Green is a strong yellow-green colour that is found in most watercolour, oil, and acrylic paint ranges. Today it is made using a mixture of pigments, but ...
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Features & EditorialsQuiet and understated, Green Earth isn’t a colour that demands attention. It is easily overwhelmed by other colours and tends to melt away in mixtures. However, what it ...
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PigmentsIntroduced to artists paints in the 1960s, Unbleached Titanium (pigment index number PW6 or PW6:1) is a shade of yellow-grey that can be described as being like parchment, ...
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PigmentsThe range of Jackson’s Artist Pigments consists of 100 dry pigments, from modern synthetics to natural earths. Each pigment has a unique set of characteristics, such as tinting ...
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PigmentsPayne’s Grey is made up of a mixture of pigments that combine to make an alternative to black. It is usually very dark in masstone, and reveals very ...
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Oil PaintingRembrandt’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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Oil PaintingMaking Handmade Oil Paint You can make good oil paint with just pigment, a drying oil and a palette knife. But most artists making there own paint take ...
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Oil PaintingJackson’s Artist Pigment range consists of 100 dry pigments, from modern synthetics to natural earths with each pigment having a different set of characteristics, such as tinting strength, ...
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PigmentsArtist 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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PigmentsBrown 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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PigmentsIn 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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PigmentsThroughout 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 ...
