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Making Bistre Ink from Wood Soot — The Warm Brown Drawing Ink of Old Masters
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Making Woad Blue Pigment — Europe's Ancient Blue Before Indigo
by Charlie
ART
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Making Madder Lake Pigment — Precipitating Red Pigment from the Dyer's Root
by Charlie
ART
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Synthesising Vermillion from Mercury and Sulfur — The King of Red Pigments
by Charlie
ART
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Making Realgar Orange Pigment — The Arsenic Companion to Orpiment
by Charlie
ART
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Making Red Lead (Minium) — The Pigment That Named the Art of Miniature Painting
by Charlie
ART
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Making Sepia Ink from Cuttlefish — The Natural Brown Ink of Mediterranean Artists
by Charlie
ART
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Making Red Ochre Tattoo Paint — Iron Oxide Body Pigment of Ancient Cultures
by Charlie
Body Art
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Making Black Tattoo Ink from Wood Soot — The Oldest Body Pigment in Human History
by Charlie
Body Art
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Making Gamboge Yellow — Preparing the Tree Resin Pigment of Southeast Asian Painters
by Charlie
ART
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Making Cochineal Carmine Lake Pigment — Precipitating the Insect Red onto an Alum Substrate for Painting
by Charlie
ART
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Distilling Turpentine from Pine Resin — The Essential Solvent of Oil Painting
by Charlie
Distilling
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Hazardous
Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment
by Charlie
ART
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Making Orpiment Yellow Pigment — Grinding the Golden Arsenic Mineral of the Ancient World
by Charlie
ART
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Making Azurite Blue Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into the Blue of Medieval Painting
by Charlie
ART
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Making Lead White (Flake White) — The Dutch Stack Process for the Most Important Pigment in Oil Painting History
by Charlie
ART
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Making Raw and Burnt Sienna — The Warm Iron Earth from Tuscany
by Charlie
ART
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Making Raw and Burnt Umber — The Manganese Earth Pigments of Warm Shadow and Deep Brown
by Charlie
ART
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Making Yellow Ochre Pigment — Grinding and Levigating Goethite into the Oldest Painter's Yellow
by Charlie
ART
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Making Bone Black Pigment — Calcining Animal Bones into the Warm Black of Old Master Painters
by Charlie
Animal
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