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Decorative Arts
50 blueprints available • 14 subcategories
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Blueprints (50)

Making Raw and Burnt Sienna — The Warm Iron Earth from Tuscany
by Charlie
Pigment Color
20
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0
0
1
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Making Raw and Burnt Umber — The Manganese Earth Pigments of Warm Shadow and Deep Brown
by Charlie
Pigment Color
12
0
0
0
1
0

Making Yellow Ochre Pigment — Grinding and Levigating Goethite into the Oldest Painter's Yellow
by Charlie
Pigment Color
14
0
0
0
2
0

Making Bone Black Pigment — Calcining Animal Bones into the Warm Black of Old Master Painters
by Charlie
Pigment Color
27
0
0
0
3
0

Hazardous content
Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
by Charlie
ART
19
0
0
0
8
0

Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings
by Charlie
Middle Ages
12
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0
0
4
0

Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite
by Charlie
ART
26
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0
0
6
0

Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
by Charlie
Ancient
28
0
0
0
9
0

Hazardous content
Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
by Charlie
ART
20
0
0
0
7
0

Hazardous content
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
by Charlie
Pigment Color
14
0
0
0
6
0

Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
Painting
16
0
0
0
8
0

Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
16
0
0
0
2
0

Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
by Charlie
Ancient
11
0
0
0
3
0

Making Casein Paint from Milk and Lime — The Ancient Protein-Based Wall Paint
by Charlie
Chemistry
21
0
0
0
2
0

Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
17
0
0
0
3
0

Making Hide Glue Distemper — The Traditional Ceiling and Wall Paint of Europe
by Charlie
Painting
25
0
0
0
4
0

Hazardous content
Making Lime Wash — The Oldest and Simplest Wall Paint in the World
by Charlie
Prehistoric
21
0
0
0
2
0

Cochineal Harvest from Prickly Pear — From Insect to Carmine Pigment
by Florecita
Raw Materials
16
0
0
0
0
0

Making Acrylic Paint — Grinding Pigments into Acrylic Polymer Medium
by Charlie
Decorative Arts
91
0
0
2
0
0

Making Egg Tempera Paint — The Medieval Panel Painting Medium
by Charlie
Decorative Arts
92
0
0
0
4
0