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112 blueprints available • 3 subcategories

Blueprints (112)

Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings

Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings

ngu-CharlieDE

Middle Ages

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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

ngu-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

ngu-CharlieDE

Ancient

41
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0
0
9
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Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
Yingozi

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

ngu-CharlieDE

Modern

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

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

ngu-CharlieDE

Middle Ages

22
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0
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

ngu-CharlieDE

Middle Ages

25
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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

ngu-CharlieDE

Ancient

22
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0
0
2
0
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

ngu-CharlieDE

Ancient

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3
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Making Casein Paint from Milk and Lime — The Ancient Protein-Based Wall Paint

Making Casein Paint from Milk and Lime — The Ancient Protein-Based Wall Paint

ngu-CharlieDE

Ancient

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4
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk

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

ngu-CharlieDE

Prehistoric

40
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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

ngu-CharlieDE

Ancient

28
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3
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Making Hide Glue Distemper — The Traditional Ceiling and Wall Paint of Europe

Making Hide Glue Distemper — The Traditional Ceiling and Wall Paint of Europe

ngu-CharlieDE

Middle Ages

33
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4
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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

ngu-CharlieDE

Ancient

33
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0
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

ngu-CharlieDE

Prehistoric

68
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0
6
0
Making Lime Wash — The Oldest and Simplest Wall Paint in the World

Making Lime Wash — The Oldest and Simplest Wall Paint in the World

ngu-CharlieDE

Prehistoric

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2
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation

Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation

ngu-CharlieDE

Prehistoric

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7
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History

Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History

ngu-CharlieDE

Middle Ages

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6
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters

Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters

ngu-CharlieDE

Ancient

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7
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Cosecha de Cochinilla del Nopal — Del Insecto al Pigmento Carmín

Cosecha de Cochinilla del Nopal — Del Insecto al Pigmento Carmín

ngu-FlorecitaMX

Agriculture

24
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Making Acrylic Paint — Grinding Pigments into Acrylic Polymer Medium

Making Acrylic Paint — Grinding Pigments into Acrylic Polymer Medium

ngu-CharlieDE

Painting

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2
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