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505 blueprints available • 11 subcategories

Blueprints (505)

Distilling Turpentine from Pine Resin — The Essential Solvent of Oil Painting

Distilling Turpentine from Pine Resin — The Essential Solvent of Oil Painting

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Middle Ages

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Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment
Yingozi

Making Naples Yellow (Lead Antimonate) — The Oldest Known Synthetic Yellow Pigment

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ART

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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

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Chemistry

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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

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ART

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

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

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Painting

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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

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ART

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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

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ART

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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

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Pigment Color

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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

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Chemistry

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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

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Ancient

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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings

Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings

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ART

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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

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Chemistry

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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

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Ancient

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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)

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Chemistry

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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

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ART

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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

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Chemistry

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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

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Ancient

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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

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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

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Prehistoric

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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

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Ancient

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