Oil Painting Pigment Powders | Rublev Colours Pigments

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Oil Painting Pigment Powders Rublev Colours
Pigments
Rublev Colours pigments are made directly from
mineral and organic sources. Our geologist, who
has many years experience selecting minerals for
pigments, travels to distant locations, and hand
selects mineral ores for use in our pigments. We
process the minerals by pulverizing, grinding and
levigating for use as fine artists pigments.
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Our Selection of Rublev Colours Pigments for Oil
Painting
Rublev Colours natural mineral, organic and
historical powder pigments are especially made by
Natural Pigments for artists. They are the same
pigments used by ancient, medieval and
Renaissance painters. Each pigment can be used
for different painting techniques. Whether you
are a novice or an experienced painter, youll
find Rublev Colours pigments well suited for use
in aqueous mediums, such as egg and casein
tempera, gum arabic (watercolor), hide glue
(distemper) and acrylic dispersions. They perform
equally well in oil and alkyd paint. Most are
suitable for fresco and other painting
techniques, such as encaustic.
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Why Use Natural Pigments?
Synthetic pigments today are made to serve the
paint industry, in which producing paints for
artists plays a minor role. To achieve maximum
desirability in paint today, pigments are made
homogenous in shape, size and composition. For
example, to increase the covering power of
pigments, particle sizes are made as small as
possible. The smaller the particles, the more the
color nuances of the pigment are reduced to its
basic hue, as in inks that have no texture.
Particles that are homogenous in shape and size
also tend not to settle quickly and separate from
the binder during storage. This increases the
shelf life and thereby the marketability of
paint, but reduces its beauty as a color for
artists use. As Anita Albus wrote in Art of
Arts, The result is not perfection, but
sterility.
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Artists material manufacturers purchase most of
their pigments from companies that mass-produce
them for other uses. A few examples include
ultramarine, cadmium and phthalo colors. Oddly
enough, painters are one of the few artistic
groups to succumb to economic pressures and use
ready-made materials.
Even in the applied arts such as cookery, it is
customary to produce their own stocks and sauces,
even though commercially-processed alternatives
are available.
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