The Natural Pigments Oil Paint-Making Kit is intended for artists who want to expand their oil-painting horizons, but have little or no experience making their own paints. The kit comes wih all the materials that you need to get started, including instructions, basic oil medium, glass muller, grinding surface and six traditional pigments in dry powder form to start making your own oil colors.
It is an excellent introduction to paint making, which can open the door to a new range of possibilities in oil mediums, pigments and paint recipes.
Pigments Included in the Kit
The kit includes one ounce volume (29 cc) each of Green Earth, Yellow Ocher, Red Ocher, Umber, Titanium White and Black—all packaged in individual plastic jars.
Purpose of the Oil Paint-Making Kit
The Natural Pigments Oil Paint-Making Kit is designed for artists who wish to make small amounts of oil colors. You will find it useful for making paint on the spot, as you need them. Unlike larger grinding tools, the small size of these tools allows for easy carefree cleanup between use. It's also a great educational tool for instructors to demonstrate how artists' paint was made prior to the 19th century.
It is an excellent introduction to paint making, which can open the door to a new range of possibilities in different mediums, pigments and paint recipes.
The kit includes the following items:
Kit Contents
Item
Quantity
Description
1 each
Introductory Pigment Sampler See the compete description here.
1 each
Small glass muller, 5 cm (2 in.) diameter base
1 each
Grinding plate, 254 x 254 x 63 mm (10 x 10 x 0.25 inch) tempered glass Note: This glass is not sandblasted or roughened and must be prepared before use by grinding with silicon carbide.
1 each
Spatula, stainless steel metal with wood handle
1 each
Silicon carbide, 100 grit, net vol. 1 oz. (29 cc) jar
1 each
Dispenser bottle, 4 fl oz. capacity
6 each
Collapsible metal tubes and caps, 20 ml capacity
1 each
Refined Linseed Oil, 8 fl oz (237 ml)
1 each
Making Your Own Water-Solved Paint—This 12-page document contains instructions for preparing the grinding surface, making your own watercolor paint and storing paint in collapsible tubes. Note: This item is sent by email as a PDF document.
Natural Pigments
Natural Pigments is a limited liability company based in Willits, California. We manufacture and distribute rare and hard-to-find materials for fine artists and decorators. We specialize in supplying artists' materials that were used in historical painting since pre-historic times up to and including the nineteenth century.
We constantly search for materials and products of the finest quality so that we can bring them direct to you from the source. To do so, we travel the world to find materials specifically for use by professional artists and decorators. We obtain minerals from mines in Afghanistan, Chile, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, to name a few places, processing these into natural pigments. We purchase resins, gums and plants from India, Kenya and Malaysia to make natural varnishes and painting mediums.
Our mission is to provide the largest variety of natural pigments, paints and other professional artists' supplies, enabling us to bring you a selection that makes shopping for rare and hard-to-find art materials easy. Our objective is to promote the education and use of these materials among artists by providing detailed information for their employment in encaustic, fresco, oil, watercolor and tempera painting.
All Natural Pigments products
Product weight:
1.00 lbs
This product is shipped from our warehouse in Gretna, NE, USA.
This product is brand new and includes the manufacturer's warranty, so you can buy with confidence.
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