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 Pastel Painting

For pastel painting, pigments are very loosely bound into lumps or sticks, like chalks, using a dilute binder, such as gum tragacanth. Colored drawings or paintings are made on paper or cardboard with these chalks.

Since much pigment dust is normally raised by this technique, it is important that poisonous pigments be excluded from the pastel lists, lest they be inhaled by the artist. [p. 6]

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

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