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"Titanium White was first developed in the early part of the 20th century and by 1920 it was appearing in artists colors. At first artists were... more info

"Iridescent pigments originated with automotive paint chemists looking for colors that would be unique for a particular make or model of car and... more info

"Originally introduced to meet the needs of folk artists who preferred a creamy off-white for many projects this soft white also fills a need... more info

"Australian Ghost Gum was originally introduced to match the soft whites found in the trunks of the ghostly trees that are common in the... more info

"There is a myth often repeated that Unbleached Titanium is what all Titanium White looks like before the brownish impurities are bleached out... more info

"One of the new class of high performance mineral pigments, first developed in the 1960???s and slowly establishing itself as a valuable member... more info

"For centuries artists had no reliable transparent light yellow colors. There were all sorts of concoctions made from berries and other plant... more info

"There was excitement when Bismuth Yellow was introduced a few years ago that it might be a safer alternative to the Cadmiums which were under... more info

"When Cadmium Yellow began to become popular among artists in the mid 19th century it was only natural to ask if the pigment could be adjusted... more info

"In theory, any colour can be obtained by the mixing of the three basic primaries. In practice the nature of pigments means that it is not so... more info

"In recent years PY74 has become the standard mid yellow arylide color. The names azo and arylide are often used for a wide range of closely... more info

"Considering the problems with bright yellows in preceding centuries it is surprising how slowly the use of Cadmium Yellow caught on. Looking at... more info

"This is a yellow of extraordinary beauty, although it may not seem so at first. This might explain why it it was discovered in 1830 but sat on... more info

"Yellow Deep is a rich golden yellow that may remind some of Vincent Van Gogh???s sunflowers. As it was, Vincent Van Gogh he used a golden shade... more info

"Iso Yellow is short for Isoindoline which is itself a shortening of the full chemical name for this pigment. It is a vat pigment. Vat pigments... more info

"Australian Salmon Gum is a mixed colour that is typical of certain species of trees in the Australian bush. The Salmon Gum is one of them and... more info

"For many artists this is the perfect orange with a beautiful and clean pure orange hue. It has excellent covering power and is absolutely... more info

"This gorgeous orange is a welcome addition to the artist???s palette. For a long time Cadmium Orange was the only permanent opaque orange... more info

"This popular orange colour is a mixture of Vermillion (Azo) with Yellow Mid Azo. It is a characteristic of Pigment Orange 36 that it enters... more info

"Pigment Orange 36 is a reddish orange colour of high permanence both indoors and out. Its many good qualities make it one of the most commonly... more info

"Cadmium Orange Deep is a blending of Cadmium Red with Cadmium Orange. Cadmium reds and orange have been used by artists for 90 years and in... more info

"Scarlet is the yellowest of the reds and people tend to assume that Will Scarlet, one of the character in the Robin Hood stories, wore clothes... more info

"Pigment Red 254 was the first of the new pyrrole pigments to become available in artists colour ranges. These pigments were originally... more info

"Matisse Scarlet DPP is a sensational colour. The ??DPP?? in the name is a reference to the chemical name for pyrrole pigments. Their full name... more info

"In theory all colours can be mixed from just the primary colours plus black and white, or in the case of watercolour-like techniques the white... more info

"When Cadmium Red was introduced in 1919 vermilion had been the favourite of artists for hundreds of years. It was generally permanent if good... more info

"One of the joys of the quinacridone reds is that they come in such a variety of shades. This is because they are so useful in many industries... more info

"NAPHTHOL pigments have a long history. The first one was developed in the 1880???s and enjoyed early success under the name para red but it was... more info

"The predecessor of this colour, Alizarin Crimson was first synthesized in 1868 and immediately became a hit with artists since these deep... more info

"Desert and arid regions around the world have very different natural colouration to wetter regions with heavier vegetation. These regions seem... more info

"This beautiful deep rose madder colour shares little with the original colour name other than the name. The colour is cleaner, it is stronger,... more info

"Paradoxically there are several quinacridone reds in the Matisse range and their pigment is pigment violet19 while this one, which is a true... more info

"Magenta Light is a blend of highly permanent pigments. While the colour itself has not been tested by the ASTM both ingredients have been... more info

"Ash Pink is a soft and subdued earthy pink with some surprising uses. It is a blend of Titanium White and a special red oxide chosen because it... more info

"Venetian Red is a pure iron oxide with real wow factor. It gets its name because the natural iron oxide deposits inland from Venice were this... more info

"Both Transparent Venetian Red and Permanent Maroon work well with Venetian red to depict deep earthy reds moving in and out of light and... more info

"Pigment Red 179 is known to chemists as Perylene Maroon. Perylene molecules result when 2 naphthalene molecules are joined back to back. This... more info

"Deep Rose Madder is a is a very dark red which is known in the chemical industry as benzimidazolone red. It is made in vast quantities and used... more info

"Burgundy is a deep reddish purple colour that has been popular for many years. It is similar to the tyrian purple used in antiquity. That... more info

"Dioxazine is the original violet colour that came out in the earliest acrylic paint ranges. It is a deep clean, and very dark violet colour... more info

"Permanent Light Violet is a beautiful pastel shade of violet that some artists might not see the need for at first glance. Yet this colour has... more info

"Australian Sky Blue is a simple blend of Ultramarine and Titanium White It is very convenient to have this mixture in a tube as the sky forms... more info

"Mineral Blue is a soft gray-blue as is sometimes seen in rocks and minerals. While it is not so bright as most other blues available to the... more info

"Ultramarine Blue is often regarded as the king of blues and it is clearly the most popular blue in artists paints. It first appeared in Europe... more info

"Midnight Blue is a dark blue-black closely related to Paynes Grey except that Paynes Grey is a blend of Ultramarine Blue with Mars Black while... more info

"Matisse Indigo is pure PB60 which is commonly called Indanthrone Blue which is a little confusing because the pigment is actually described as... more info

"Phthalo Blue is the short name for Phthalocyanine. It is an unusual case of the scientific name for a pigment gaining common usage and accepted... more info

"Primary Blue is a surprise package for the artist. Primary Yellow and Primary Red are designed to work with it in 3, 4, and 5 colour mixing... more info

"Matisse Prussian Blue is a real wow factor colour. The reason all acrylic ranges in the early days of acrylics had Phthalo Blue as the standard... more info

"Cerulean is a latin word name which literally means ??sky blue??. Consequently when we say Cerulean Blue we are actually saying sky blue blue... more info

"Cobalt Blue usage dates back more than 3,000 years for the colouring of blue glass but the source of the colour was not understood and so its... more info

"When cobalt was identified as an element in 1755 the first of the modern cobalt pigments to be developed was cobalt green in 1780 by the... more info

"Australian Blue Gum is one of the special Australian colours that Matisse makes. The colours in the Australian landscape are distinctive and... more info

"Southern Ocean Blue is the sort of deep turquoise colour that is found in the deep oceans. It is a blend of green and blue phthalocyanine and... more info

"Cobalt Teal is a high performance cobalt pigment developed during the 20th century but the colour itself as an artists colour is much more... more info

"Aqua Green Light would be regarded by most artists as a very new shade of colour more akin to 21st century fashion than art from the ancient... more info

"When Phthalocyanine pigment was first discovered in separate labs in Switzerland and Scotland in 1907 it was a dark blue substance that was... more info

"Olive Green has been a colour that was very much needed by artists for centuries but the artist had to make do with colours that tended to... more info

"Hookers Green is a modern version of a colour originally invented by William Hooker who was a botanical illustrator working for the Royal... more info

"Alpine Green is a clean, warm, grass green sort of colour. It is similar to (although slightly darker than) a colour that was used during the... more info

"Grey Green is a soft grey colour similar to the traditional davy???s grey but without the grittiness and weakness that pigment is prone to.... more info

"Chromium Green Oxide is a warm mid green colour well liked by artists. It is one of the top 2 or 3 pigments as far as lightfastness goes. It is... more info

"The reason for Sap Green???s name is lost in time. Perhaps it is because the colour resembles fresh new growth leaves when the sap is rising in... more info

"Yellow Green colours during the old master period had an inexplicable name. The would be called names like pink bice or green pink. Pink was... more info

"This superb green has many good qualities, such as very high permanence and it is non-toxic. It is descended from a colour, however, that had a... more info

"Permanent Green Light is a colour without a long history and is a product of the 20th century. These sorts of colours were not possible before... more info

"There is evidence of yellow ochre being used by artists as much as 30,000 years ago, although the oldest paintings appear to be mostly red... more info

"For tens of thousands or more years, Yellow Oxide has been a simple natural clay dug from the ground. Improvements did occur. At first it would... more info

"Artists in the inland regions of Australia had a problem for many years. Many of the colours produced by northern hemisphere paint... more info

"For millennia people saw the variations in yellowish earths as being the nature of things and little or no differentiation was made between... more info

"No one knows exactly when Burnt Sienna pigment was first made. All that is certain is that it happened in Italy and was well established by the... more info

"In all probability this is the oldest pigment colour ever used by humans. All of the oldest archeological evidence in which there are pigment... more info

"Transparent Red Oxide is an ??Oh, wow?? sort of colour. If ever the phrase ???drop dead gorgeous??? could be applied to a colour this is it.... more info

"Mars Violet is the modern name for the dark violet synthetic reds made during the early 20th century to today but a natural version of this... more info

"Raw Umber gets it name from the fact that it originally was from Umbria in the central mountains of Italy, although it is a very common clay... more info

"Burnt Umber was developed in Italy during the Renaissance and by the time of Leonardo Da Vinci the colour had become standardised to the shade... more info

"Transparent Umber is a colour with the ??Oh Wow?? factor. The earth colours have generally changed very little overt the millennia and artists... more info

"Although Van Dyke Brown has the name of Anthony Van Dyke because it was said to be first used by him, in actual fact it was Rubens who... more info

"Raw Umber Deep is darker than Raw Umber due to the addition of black to umber. This produces a colour similar to bistre which was a colour used... more info

Portraiture has a long and esteemed history that goes back to the highly stylized images created by the Greeks and the Egyptians. The middle ages saw... more info

Portraiture has a long and esteemed history that goes back to the highly stylized images created by the Greeks and the Egyptians. The middle ages saw... more info

Portraiture has a long and esteemed history that goes back to the highly stylized images created by the Greeks and the Egyptians. The middle ages saw... more info

This opaque neutral grey is a precise blend of Mars Black pigment and Titanium White. This product is offered for convenience and consistency.... more info

Carbon Black, often referred to as Lamp Black, was originally created by collecting the soot, or lampblack from oil lamps but is now obtained from... more info

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Ivory Black is named so because the pigment used in its creation was derived from the charred bones of dead animals, a practice accredited to the... more info

Graphite is a very common soft carbon that was named by the German Geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 from an ancient Greek word that... more info

The use of metallic finishes in art has a long and esteemed history that began with a technique known as gilding. This is a blanket term that refers... more info

The use of metallic finishes in art has a long and esteemed history that began with a technique known as gilding. This is a blanket term that refers... more info

The use of metallic finishes in art has a long and esteemed history that began with a technique known as gilding. This is a blanket term that refers... more info

The use of metallic finishes in art has a long and esteemed history that began with a technique known as gilding. This is a blanket term that refers... more info

The use of metallic finishes in art has a long and esteemed history that began with a technique known as gilding. This is a blanket term that refers... more info