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Drift wood painted with the native color of the landscape

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Luxurious Munsell Eyeshadow Palette for busy archaeologists who want to look modest but stylish, try now

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I made this palette based on the above colors, if anyone is interested!

#Natural Pigments

"Why don't you post some more about your cool map?"

Because that takes effort.

And I'm supremely lazy for everything that's not drawing.

Gosh.

#But seriously I'm buried under my own inability to figure out a nice screenshot layout and shit

Extinct In The Wild - Quin Gold (pt.1)

Quinacridone Gold PO49 - Extinct in the wild.

It went out of production as a pigment in the late 1990/Early 2000s, and the last company to offer it was Daniel Smith in 2005, with the last vestiges running out sometime in 2018.

Gurrera Pigments has a small amount left as liquid dispersion, this being "new old" dupont stock from the 1950s A few hand-made, small batch, artisans still produce it from this and once in a great while someone will look at the 30 large tubes of Daniel Smith that they hoarded, realize they're all rock solid, and pop them on Ebay to be someone else's problem Precious - at a premium.

Pictured is an example by Prodigal Son's who produces handmade, small batch, watercolors from rare and historic pigments. Another brand with this pigment on offer is Nightshade, and very, very, very rarely some other pigment nerds will produce a couple of pans of their own.

I am an absolute slut for a good green, and green is awful when it comes to "single pigment" options (see previous rant). The only green pigments you would really call "green" are probably PG8 (Nitroso Green, variably lightfast), PG17 (Chrome Oxide green, fully opaque), and maybe some iterations of PG36 (Phthalo Green Yellow Shade, of which most are decidedly BLUE).

But you know what makes a fantastic green? This color, with a littel of the Phthalo green/s. God... the subtle shades of pure summer leaf splendor into deep fall oranges is really worth it if you do a lot of botanical illustrations.

Hopefully, some day, a new manufacturer of Quinacridone pigments will show up, and bring these back into regular ciculation. (Swatch stamp from Kim Crick)

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A Highly Pigmented Rant.

Once upon a time art was gatekept less by skill and more by the fact that pigments (being most often ground from minerals, oxidized from toxic metals, and painstakingly leeched and fixed from botanicals... or made from straight up ground up mummies) were very, very, very expensive. This is why a lot of artists had patrons.

Artists made their own paints from ground pigments, binders, etc. by hand, and it wasn't cheap or easy. Van Gogh used bits of wool to test his ideas for color combinations because paint was so fucking expensive.

For once the Industrial revolution did like three things correctly, because we no longer had to boil snail juice for purple. But... it did centralize production, which... has its weaknesses.

The thing is that if/when a color falls out of favor with the automotive industry there's a good chance (almost a guarantee) that the market dives. And in our age of dependency upon single-source overseas manufacture (for good or ill) there might only be or or two companies in the ENTIRE WORLD producing a specific pigment.

In the late 1990s the only global manufacturer of po49 (Quinacridone Gold) discontinued production and sold their remaining stock to Daniel Smith Co. About five years ago Daniel Smith ran out. "Ah" you might say "But it's only ONE color, what's the problem with that!?"

Most folks know basic color theory. Cyan, Yellow, Magenta/ Red, Green, Blue/ Red, Yellow, Blue. Some use a split primary palette that has a combination. Mix those colors in various quantities and you get basically every color in existence... in theory. Most often, however, you get mud.

Why is that? That's because most art supplies use combinations of pigments to achieve their colors. And the more pigments you add to visually get to a color, the much higher the chances of mixtures becoming sludge.

Green is actually kind of a bastard color. There aren't a lot of sources for "green" that aren't mixes. Most greens are quite blueish, though some (like Chromium Oxide - PG17) are very "green" but also very opaque. PO49 was a bright, clean, transparent, single-pigment, lightfast, inexpensive, warm yellow. So a lot of greens switched to using a combination of it and Pthalo Green (PG7, a fairly blue, but very strong and lightfast color) ... and then it got kneecapped.

They switched to PO48 (Quinacridone Burnt Orange) or PY150 (Nickel Azo Yellow) and sometimes either of the first two with a dash of PV19 (Quinacridone Rose) to try and make a substitute for PO48. You can see the problem here, right? Instead of one color, it's now three, one of which is very, very, pink. Instead of your sap green being two colors it's now four. And it looks different. And if you even touch it to another color your chance of getting mud increases exponentially.

And then... it happened again several more times.

The last few years alone we've lost several pigments including PO48 (Quinacridone Burnt Orange), PO73 (Pyrrol Orange), PO59 (Nickel Orange), and PR206 (Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet). For SOME there are alternative single-pigment colors, but they're often a little less lightfast, or toxic, or almost impossible to source. I panic bought a bunch of PR206's pinker version because it's a palette staple for me. I heard other pigments might be going the same way and bought up a few extras just in case.

Yes, there are a few companies that still have stock out there, but it's dwindling fast and really mostly left to the small artisan manufacturers to turn those liquid dispersions into usable pigments and paints. You CAN still get Quin Gold from a few sources. You CAN still scour the internet for the last few Quin Burnt Oranges and Scarlets in sticks and pans and big tubes. But one day, unless a company steps up, they'll be gone.

And it hurts something deep, deep, in my weird little soul that a color can go extinct.

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It me. I did that.

My tendonitis will attest to this.

Comparing PBk11's: Daniel Smith vs. Van Gogh.

A bit about my swatches: They are lazy af. Left to right are a mass tone/bloom test, a crappy gradient and opacity test, and on bottom is a lifting test.

Why do I have two of the exact same pigments in my palette? Because they behave totally differently.

Daniel Smith's Lunar Black is much more opaque, really bites into the paper when it's left to sit for any length of time (as you can tell by the lack of bloom), but lifts well if done quickly.

Van Gogh's Oxide black on the other hand is a lot "thinner", but has a far more intense granulation effect.

If you are looking for a good option for convenience mixes that are meant to granulate intensely I'd opt for the Van Gogh, but if you're looking for mass tone it's gonna be DS.

The main difference over-all is pricing: Van Gogh runs about one third of the price compared to Daniel Smith.

Daniel Smith: Pigment: PBk 11 | Series: 1 Lightfastness: I – Excellent Transparency: Transparent Staining: 2-Low Staining Granulation: Granulating

Van Gogh: Lightfastness: +++ Opacity: Semi-opaque Price series: 1 Pigment: PBk11

#watercolor swatch #watercolor reviews #watercolor supplies #daniel smith watercolors #van gogh watercolors

Neutral Tint Comparison: Daniel Smith vs. Van Gogh

A bit about my swatch cards: They are lazy AF. From left to right we have a mass tone/bloom test, a gradient with a lazy opacity gage, and on bottom is a lifting test.

Neutral tints are a life-saver for me. They help produce shadows that aren't opaque, or heavily granulated. And, as someone who thinks about colors in 'grayscale' they make my life a lot easier.

I see zero break with either of these, meaning the color remains smooth, with little to no variation.

Daniel Smith's neutral tint is a little darker, and uses an additional shot of Phthalo Blue, making it slightly cooler.

VG's "student grade" doesn't disappoint, either. While it isn't as immediately dark and saturated it is very transparent, which is great for mixing and feels a little more "true neutral" to me.

To me, the main 'difference' is price point: Van Gogh is about one third the price.

Van Gogh's Neutral Tint: Lightfastness: +++ Opacity: Transparent Price series: 1 Pigment: PBk6/PV19

DS's Neutral Tint: Pigment: PBk 6, PV 19, PB 15 | Series: 1 Lightfastness: I – Excellent Transparency: Semi-Transparent Staining: 2-Low Staining Granulation: Non-Granulating

#watercolor reviews #watercolor swatch #watercolor supplies #daniel smith watercolors #van gogh watercolors

Daniel Smith Extra Fine - Moonglow

A bit about this swatch card: My swatch cards are lazy AF. From left to right we have a masstone, a gradient with some opacity indicators, and on bottom is a lifting test.

Every single swatch I have ever seen of moonglow looks absolutely nothing like the one provided by Daniel Smith. https://danielsmith.com/color-stories/moonglow/

As far as the intense granulation and color separation of Moonglow - it's beautiful. It self-builds warm and cool tones making wonderful cloudscapes and landscape shadows. Unfortunately, if you're using it for any sort of artwork that you intend to physically display, you will want to find an alternative. With very little light exposure it rapidly fades into what I would describe as "Shittier Lunar Blue". There's a wonderful video about that here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XKc1GaH228 For the premium prices of Daniel Smith this simply should not happen.

Pigment: PG 18, PB 29, PR 177 | Series: 2 Lightfastness: I – Excellent Transparency: Transparent Staining: 2-Low Staining Granulation: Granulating

#watercolor reviews #watercolor supplies #watercolor swatch #Daniel Smith Watercolor

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Indanthrone Blue

First: To describe my swatch cards. They are lazy. Incredibly lazy. Upper left is "Mass tone and bloom back". Upper Right is "gradient and very lazy opacity test". Bottom Left is "Even lazier lifting test." I do them this way because that's what works for me.

DS' Indanthrone Blue is an absolutely gorgeous, complex, "ink blue" - y'know how some old blue ballpoint pens had an almost... metallic purple sheen to the ink if you really went hard? This is that color, including the warm, pseudo-metallic, flash.

DS's featured swatch appears far, far, far, warmer and more purple than my own. https://danielsmith.com/color-stories/indanthrone-blue/

A good descriptor for this one is "blue jeans".

Pigment: PB 60 | Series: 2 Lightfastness: I – Excellent Transparency: Transparent Staining: 3-Medium Staining Granulation: Non-Granulating

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Watercolor Review #1 - Grumbacher Miskit

I have no affiliation with this retailer, but you can buy the bastard at: Jerry’s Artarama

Overall: Eh. A solid Eh.

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I keep forgetting I have this thing.

IDK... probably gonna post reviews of watercolors. They’re all I care about anymore

A large and variable pack of 30 main objects, each with two variations (moss and sans moss) as well as 13 additional dressing pieces (fungi and flowers). This asset pack is intended for an isometri...

I forgot I had tumblr. Here’s a socialmedia cross post.

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