Notebook

Notebook, 1993-
MATERIALS & METHODS - Pigments - Approved Pigment List - The Permanent Palette - Restricted Palettes
Color Properties - Pigment Properties - Purity - Permanence
Classification - Grades of Artists' Paints - List of Pigments for Oil Painting - Manufacture of Oil Pigments
From: Kay, Reed. The Painter's Guide to Studio Methods and Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.

Pigments for Oil Painting

Pigments used in oil paints are bound together and to the canvas by a drying oil, such as linseed oil, and are thinned by such solvents as turpentine or mineral spirits. The different pigments ground in the same oil absorb different amounts of oil, dry at different rates, and form films of varying quality, form the desirable tough flexible films to brittle or crumbly ones, which may crack or peel in a short time. There are even colors [such as asphaltum or bitumen] that never dry in linseed oil.

Pigments used in oil technique should dry in linseed oil to an acceptable strong film. [p. 5]

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

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