Tag: Pigments
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Paint Stick Lightfast Tests – Over A Year On
Back at the end of April and early May last year I started the lightfastness tests of various paint stick makes – Little Brian, Kwik Stix and my original brand, KingArt. My laziness is your benefit, because over a year on they’ve been well blasted with UV in the window, and the results are surprising.…
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Shocking Pink: Tempera Paint Stick Lightfast Tests
When I was shopping around for paint sticks after I realised that the KingArt ones were too expensive to ship over from the States, I realised that there weren’t any ratings or lightfastness tests for paintsticks. They are meant for kids after all – but as we found in the Great Lightfast Test, kid’s materials…
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The 2021 Great Lightfast Test – 13 months later!
Some of you might remember the inks lightfast tests I did in 2021, or that I said I was doing a bumper test in my window, and I think I mentioned it in the Carbon Ink Review. Well a month late, and surviving the Great Heatwave, here’s the results of the 2022 Big Lightfastness Tests.…
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Abstract Advent: Week 2
Last week was a blast, this week for the Abstract Advent the Christmas Shitâ„¢ started to bite, and I found it harder to juggle meeting up with people, portrait sessions, getting all the cards and parcels off in a panic because like storms, flooding, wrong kind of wind, snow and ice on the roads as…
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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.…
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