Painting in Black: Working with Pure Pigment Powders
If the advice “Don’t ever use black paint! It dulls your paintings, and mixing blacks with colours always looks better” sounds familiar, then you’ve probably been thoroughly scared away from using black paints in favour of mixing them to create chromatic blacks. Although this can be brilliant advice in many cases, the beauty and individual assets of black pigments should also be given fair consideration. In this article, I give practical demonstrations using the Jackson’s Artist Pigment Set in Black, by transforming the six pigments into ink, oil, watercolour, and egg tempera to paint with, in response to historic artworks. Painting in Black: Working with Pure Pigment Powders Properties of the Jackson’s Artist Pigment Set in Black The beauty of working with pigments instead of buying paints is that you can transform them into a host of different mediums by combining them with different binders. This means you could use the same little pot of pigment to make drawings and paintings, without having to reinvest in the same colour in tube form for each medium. Working with pigments is often more economical, since they are relatively cheaper than pre-mixed materials, and give you the flexibility to jump …
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