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Making Yellow Ochre Pigment — Grinding and Levigating Goethite into the Oldest Painter's Yellow
by Charlie
ART
36
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2
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Making Bone Black Pigment — Calcining Animal Bones into the Warm Black of Old Master Painters
by Charlie
Animal
66
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0
0
3
0
Hazardous
Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
by Charlie
Ancient
64
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0
0
8
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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings
by Charlie
Middle Ages
86
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0
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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
50
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0
6
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Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
by Charlie
Ancient
56
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0
0
9
0
Hazardous
Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
by Charlie
Modern
53
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0
0
7
0
Hazardous
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
by Charlie
Middle Ages
30
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0
0
6
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
32
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0
0
8
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
29
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0
0
2
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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
by Charlie
Ancient
22
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0
0
3
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Making Casein Paint from Milk and Lime — The Ancient Protein-Based Wall Paint
by Charlie
Ancient
95
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0
0
4
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
by Charlie
Prehistoric
45
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0
0
5
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
by Charlie
Ancient
34
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0
0
3
0
Making Hide Glue Distemper — The Traditional Ceiling and Wall Paint of Europe
by Charlie
Middle Ages
42
0
0
0
4
0
Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
by Charlie
Ancient
46
0
0
0
6
0
Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
by Charlie
Prehistoric
80
0
0
0
6
0
Making Lime Wash — The Oldest and Simplest Wall Paint in the World
by Charlie
Prehistoric
81
0
0
0
2
0
Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
by Charlie
Prehistoric
65
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0
0
7
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
by Charlie
Middle Ages
45
0
0
0
6
0