- Whiting.
Requires prep to ensure smoothness. Place in bucket and add cold water until covered. No need to stir, just let it sit. It will be ready the following day.
- Earth, earthern and natural pigments
- Clays, containing oxides, manganese etc
- Green is a weak pigment, it's comprised mostly of clay
- Ochers, umbers, siennas are of medium density.
- Red iron oxide is a powerfully strong pigment.
- White is from titanium dioxide and zinc oxide.
- Ultramarine blue and ultramarine red and obtained from clays hi temp fired, with sulfur.
- Chromium odixe is green
- Manganese violet is a powerful pigment, ultramarine violet less so.
- Bugs and plants
- Cochineal - red, made from bugs, err, cochineal beetles.
- Deilcate light sensitive natutal plant pigments:
- kesu blossom (orange)
- krapp root (red)
- reseda or weld (yellow to olive)
- woad and indigo (blue)
- Glimmer pigments
By-products of the metal industry they are very fine particles of gold, bronze and silver color material.
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