Notebook

Notebook, 1993-

MATERIALS & METHODS - Pigments

Lakes
In order to be used in paints, most dyes must be precipitated and fixed on particles of inert material, called the base, or carrier. Thus artificial alizarin dye is struck on a base of aluminum hydrate and thereby is made usable as an artist's color. Such colors are called lakes. The particles of which they are composed may be likened to a snowball [the aluminum hydrate base] dipped into grape juice [the alizarin dyestuff]. [p. 7]

[Kay, Reed. The Painter's Guide to Studio Methods and Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.]

















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