Tag: Dioxazine

  • Cranes of Kingston

    Cranes of Kingston

    Time to talk of many things, of Cranes and Kings, you’ll have to answer to… Cranes of Kingston! Yes I have a thing about cranes they appear in many works, even are the featured star and recently the ones that tower over the horror that is Royal Exchange (yes they exchanged my former Job Centre…

  • Prussian Blue abstracts

    Prussian Blue abstracts

    I am fond of Prussian Blue, I mean really fond of it, and for a while totally obsessed with it’s dark greeny-blue nature and it’s properties, which I’ll talk about later. It was the first modren synthetic pigment, created back in the 18th Century from dried blood (ugh) and is made from oxidised iron salts.…