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Making Sepia Ink from Cuttlefish — The Natural Brown Ink of Mediterranean Artists
by Charlie
Ancient
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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
Pigment Color
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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 content
Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment
by Charlie
Chemistry
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Hazardous content
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
Painting
27
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Hazardous content
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
Painting
26
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Making Raw and Burnt Umber — The Manganese Earth Pigments of Warm Shadow and Deep Brown
by Charlie
Pigment Color
19
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Making Yellow Ochre Pigment — Grinding and Levigating Goethite into the Oldest Painter's Yellow
by Charlie
Painting
28
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Making Bone Black Pigment — Calcining Animal Bones into the Warm Black of Old Master Painters
by Charlie
Prehistoric
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Hazardous content
Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
by Charlie
Chemistry
35
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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings
by Charlie
Pigment Color
59
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4
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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite
by Charlie
Ancient
38
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6
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Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
by Charlie
ART
40
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Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
by Charlie
Painting
33
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Hazardous content
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
by Charlie
Pigment Color
21
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