#lamp black

[agentsketchbookart]

Some Word Plains doodlies that I haven’t gotten around to posting. Mostly characters based off colors, a few Time Bombs, and a King Pin with magic color change markers.

[flyingclubhouse]

I've been busy making an autumn watercolor palette. I have three left in my shop. My favorite color from this palette is "November," which is a combination of natural violet ochre and ultramarine violet.

I also am happy with the black I made, which is a combination of two very different black pigments - Mars, which is very granulating and not very intense, and Lamp, which is very intense but not granulating. Together they make the sort of black that is sufficiently dark but has a texture that compliments the other granulating colors in this palette.

[homesickzero]

Mary Lovelace O’Neal, She Thinks She's a Zebra

Mary Lovelace O’Neal (1942-Present)

"Born in Mississippi and raised in Arkansas, Mary Lovelace O’Neal is a painter and printmaker whose early works consisted of large-scale monochromatic and minimalist works on unstretched canvas.  Her later works were bold, expressionistic color field paintings where her feverish brushstrokes gave the paintings movement and energy. Recent works are colorful narrative tales executed in pastel on paper." source

[cumuluslife]

Frank Duminil

[winterjourney]

23. July 2024 - REALLY Black Ink

Ink made from charcoal dates back to prehistoric times. Charcoal was used 17,000 years ago in the caves at Lascaux. Ink made from soot or lamp black has been in use for at least 4,000 years. Gutenberg used it. It was easily made in Colonial America.

The basic recipe: soot from your local chimney sweep mixed with water and your choice of binding agents: egg white, honey, gum Arabic, et al. Mix well in a mortar and then pestel the daylights out of it.

The result is an incredibly black ink. It has the scent of a fireplace or a house after the fire department has left. (Clove or lavender oil can fix that.)

I'll be using this pigment in creating Art and illustrations.

Note: I received enough soot from a local handyman and chimney sweep to make a 55-gallon drum of ink.

That should last me for a while.

Have a safe and interesting week, everyone

🐝 Stockwell

[flyingclubhouse]

I'm making lamp black to add to my open stock watercolor collection. Each color is hand-mulled and cured over many weeks.

It's the most intense black I've made, and I enjoy using it almost like an ink or for dramatic moments - like the shadow under the bridge here:

[tessazalea]

Almost finished...lamp black,Oxyde green&Hooker's green

[inkywellington]

Where Can someone find some LAMP BLACK?

( n3n) It can be made with either a candle or kerosene lamp, and a large metal spoon.