Browsing Tag Colour
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Oil PaintingClaude Monet (1840-1926) was the leading French Impressionist landscape painter. It was in a bad review of their first show that a critic labelled the group of ‘lunatic’ ...
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Features & Editorials
In 19th-century Britain, revolutionary advances in chemistry led to an explosion of vibrant new dyes and pigments, introducing a dazzling array of colour possibilities for Victorian wardrobes and ...
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Interviews & Features
The Sussex Baby Lab, in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, recently conducted a study where the research team showed Dutch post-impressionist, Vincent van Gogh’s ...
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Features & Editorials
It was a dream to be asked to curate several new soft pastel sets from the 200 colour range of Jackson’s Handmade Soft Pastels. Jackson’s Soft Pastels are ...
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Pigments
The 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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Pigments
Phthalo pigments are a family of blue and green synthetic organic pigments based on variants of copper phthalocyanine, a deep blue compound produced by the reaction of phthalic ...
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Pigments
Of all the artist colours, black may well have the longest history. Charcoal, soot, and charred animal bones were used in the earliest prehistoric cave paintings. Today, there ...
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Studio and General
Alizarin Crimson (pigment index number PR83) is a synthetic lake pigment which was developed as a replacement for Madder Lake, a historical pigment used since antiquity. It is ...
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Pigments
Before the 19th century, Ultramarine Blue pigment was made with lapis lazuli, a luminous blue mineral mined in Afghanistan. The name derives from the Latin ultra (beyond) and ...
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Oil Painting
While most ranges of oil paint contain two or three whites, Gamblin produce ten: nine from their Artist Oil Range plus one FastMatte White Alkyd Oil Paint. We ...
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Pastels
Schmincke Finest Extra-Soft Pastels contain only the purest medium-fine ground artists’ pigments in the highest possible concentration with just enough binding agent added to allow a stick to ...
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Oil Painting
Green is a colour that can easily overpower a painting and many painters find mixing greens a challenge. But landscape painters, in particular, need to use a lot ...
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