MATERIALS & METHODS - Painting - Sythetic Resin Paints
Acrylic Resins - Alkyd Resins - Cellulose Acetate - Cellulose Nitrate - Synthetics in Artists' Materials - Vinyl Resins
Prepared Artists' Materials - Polyvinyl Acetate Emulsion [PVA, Vinyl Polymer Tempera] - Acrylic Emulsion Paints [Acrylic Polymer Tempera] - Acrylic Solution Paints - Alkyd Resin Medium
[From: Kay, Reed. The Painters Guide to Studio Methods and Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.]
[Acrylic Polymer Tempera] - Color Lists
The selection of colors offered by most manufacturers include, with a few exceptions, the pigments considered permanent for oil and water techniques. Alizarin and viridian are excluded from some lists, and quinacridone red and phthalocyanine green are offered as substitutes. Titanium white is the standard white pigment, both in the paints and the acrylic "gesso" primings. The following list of colors is available in most brands of acrylic polymer tempera paints.
White
Titanium white
Yellow
Cadmium yellow - light, medium, or deep
Hansa yellow
Mars yellow
Ochers and siennas
Orange
Cadmium orange
Red
Alizarin crimson
Cadmium red - light or medium
Earth reds [red oxide, Indian red, Venetian red]
Quinacridone red
Blue
Cerulean blue
Cobalt blue
Phthalocyanine blue
Ultramarine blue
Green
Chrome oxide opaque
Phthalocyanine green
Violet
Quinacridone violet
Brown
Sienna, burnt
Umber, burnt and raw
Black
Mars black
[pp. 192-193]
[Kay, Reed. The Painters Guide to Studio Methods and Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.]
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