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383 blueprints available • 11 subcategories

Blueprints (383)

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

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

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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

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

by CharlieDE

ART

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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

Ancient

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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

Pigment Color

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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

Painting

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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

Prehistoric

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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

Chemistry

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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

Pigment Color

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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

Ancient

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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

ART

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

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

by CharlieDE

Painting

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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

Pigment Color

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6
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History

Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History

by CharlieDE

Painting

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8
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters

Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters

by CharlieDE

ART

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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish

Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish

by CharlieDE

ART

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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk

Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk

by CharlieDE

ART

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5
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters

Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters

by CharlieDE

Ancient

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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate

Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate

by CharlieDE

Pigment Color

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6
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame

Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame

by CharlieDE

Prehistoric

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