American Artist - Art Mart
Natural Pigments' Paint-Making Kits
March, 2005
"Natural Pigments—a paint-production and art-supply company that specializes in unearthing rare, hard-to-find hues from around the world—has added medium-specific kits to their extensive do-it-yourself paint-making line. Artists looking to replicate the colors found in Old Master paintings will be well equipped with these newly released kits. "We make paints specifically for artists interested in Old Master paintings," says George O'Hanlon, the director of Natural Pigments. "The pigment properties of the past are vastly different from those used in today's popular paints. We create our pigments in the same way as the Old Masters: hand-ground to a coarse finish, levigated, and immediately packaged and ready for use
To obtain these exotic hues, the company imports pigments from such obscure locales as Cyprus, the Baltic Region, and Afghanistan. "We import lazurite—commonly called lapis lazuli—from Afghanistan; it's the Old Masters' ultramarine," states O'Hanlon. Similarly uncommon colors in the new Basic Paint-Making kits are available in three media—oil, casein, or watercolor. Each kit contains everything artists need to create their own paints: mixing tools, six natural mineral and earth pigments, and a sampling of binders: linseed oil and beeswax in the Basic Oil Paint-Making Kit; casein and borax in the Basic Casein Paint-Making Kit; and gum arabic, glycerin, and chalk in the Basic Watercolor Paint-Making Kit. To learn more or to order your Natural Pigments' Paint-Making Kit, visit www.naturalpigments.com.
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- bill 1-31-2005 5:23 pm