Rules for Permanent Painting

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Rules for Permanent Painting Underpainting Oil paints which are slow driers should be avoided in underpainting because the underlayers will remain mobile and move as they dry.
 This causes cracking of the fast drying colours which may be used on top of them. Pigments to avoid in underpainting: Cadmiums, Ivory and Lamp Black, Zinc White,…

Colour Mixing for contemporary artists

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Colour Mixing – a guide for contemporary artists The artists’ palette of colours is a rainbow, but unlike its sky-borne counterpart, our colours are constructed from pigments, fine grains of colour that must be bound together in order to become paint. The physical nature of pigments often interferes with the purity of perceived colour, but…