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796 blueprints available • 3 subcategories

Blueprints (796)

Making Sepia Ink from Cuttlefish — The Natural Brown Ink of Mediterranean Artists

Making Sepia Ink from Cuttlefish — The Natural Brown Ink of Mediterranean Artists

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

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Making Red Ochre Tattoo Paint — Iron Oxide Body Pigment of Ancient Cultures

Making Red Ochre Tattoo Paint — Iron Oxide Body Pigment of Ancient Cultures

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

16
0
0
0
1
0
Making Black Tattoo Ink from Wood Soot — The Oldest Body Pigment in Human History

Making Black Tattoo Ink from Wood Soot — The Oldest Body Pigment in Human History

by CharlieDE

Prehistoric

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Making Gamboge Yellow — Preparing the Tree Resin Pigment of Southeast Asian Painters

Making Gamboge Yellow — Preparing the Tree Resin Pigment of Southeast Asian Painters

by CharlieDE

Painting

7
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3
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Making Cochineal Carmine Lake Pigment — Precipitating the Insect Red onto an Alum Substrate for Painting

Making Cochineal Carmine Lake Pigment — Precipitating the Insect Red onto an Alum Substrate for Painting

by CharlieDE

Modern

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2
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Distilling Turpentine from Pine Resin — The Essential Solvent of Oil Painting

Distilling Turpentine from Pine Resin — The Essential Solvent of Oil Painting

by CharlieDE

ART

17
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0
2
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Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment

Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

20
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0
2
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Making Orpiment Yellow Pigment — Grinding the Golden Arsenic Mineral of the Ancient World

Making Orpiment Yellow Pigment — Grinding the Golden Arsenic Mineral of the Ancient World

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

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2
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Making Azurite Blue Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into the Blue of Medieval Painting

Making Azurite Blue Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into the Blue of Medieval Painting

by CharlieDE

ART

17
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4
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Making Lead White (Flake White) — The Dutch Stack Process for the Most Important Pigment in Oil Painting History

Making Lead White (Flake White) — The Dutch Stack Process for the Most Important Pigment in Oil Painting History

by CharlieDE

Ancient

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5
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Making Raw and Burnt Sienna — The Warm Iron Earth from Tuscany

Making Raw and Burnt Sienna — The Warm Iron Earth from Tuscany

by CharlieDE

ART

17
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1
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Making Raw and Burnt Umber — The Manganese Earth Pigments of Warm Shadow and Deep Brown

Making Raw and Burnt Umber — The Manganese Earth Pigments of Warm Shadow and Deep Brown

by CharlieDE

Painting

10
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0
0
1
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Making Yellow Ochre Pigment — Grinding and Levigating Goethite into the Oldest Painter's Yellow

Making Yellow Ochre Pigment — Grinding and Levigating Goethite into the Oldest Painter's Yellow

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

12
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2
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Making Bone Black Pigment — Calcining Animal Bones into the Warm Black of Old Master Painters

Making Bone Black Pigment — Calcining Animal Bones into the Warm Black of Old Master Painters

by CharlieDE

Chemistry

13
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0
3
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Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
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Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World

by CharlieDE

ART

16
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8
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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings

Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings

by CharlieDE

ART

10
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4
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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite

Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite

by CharlieDE

ART

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6
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Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green

Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

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9
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Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
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Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)

by CharlieDE

Painting

20
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7
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Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
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Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment

by CharlieDE

Middle Ages

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