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Quinacridone Pigments
Quinacridones are a contemporary painter’s greatest tool when it comes to mixing, glazing and staining. Whereas artists previously needed to choose between reds of permanency, transparency or chrom...
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Staying Grounded: The Importance of Priming
The thought of priming has become a distant thought for most painters today. Although it may seem like simple white paint, acrylic gesso is a truly modern material that has solved centuries of tech...
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Beyond Colour: The Rheology and Viscosity of Acrylic Paints
Today’s acrylic paint comes formulated in a range of mediums from free flowing, ink-like forms to highly bodied, gel types.Rheology and viscosity are the key properties that form the real structure...
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Mulling It Over: Contemporary Pigment Grinding
Grinding is the essential step in paint making that allows pigments to be transformed into smooth, liquid paint. Pigment load is often given primacy over all else when evaluating paint but the qual...