THE SYNTAX OF COLOR

Summary:  Yves Klein Blue is a fascinating art concept, making the detective work to fully understand it both intriguing and frustrating....

Summary: Old pigments contain a glimpse into the history of what was mined or harvested materials, the chemical makeup of these...

Summary: The Spoils of Our Labors - Indanthrone Blue explores the discovery of pigment manufacturers have used to add a blue hue to a...

Summary: Johann Gahn, an 18th-century chemist, discovered an amazing variety of materials that are still in use today. Read how this...

Summary: A small portion of an article in the New York Times provides an abundance of food for thought regarding the art materials...

Summary: Were the names that art materials manufacturers invented for paints a well-thought idea or a blend of romantic, historical, and...

Summary: Pyrrole Red is one of a number of pigments that were accidentally discovered. In this essay, take a trip from East Lansing,...

Part 2 Summary: Understanding something about solvents arms us with the knowledge that can help us make artwork as safely as possible....

Summary: Modern life is filled with complex things. Maintaining a basic understanding of the nature of materials provides us with...

Summary: Documents describing the origin of a pigment can consume multiple pages of explanatory facts or be stated in merely one...

Summary: The invention of mauve by William Henry Perkins in 1856 from coal tar initiated the study of aniline chemistry. A wide variety...

Summary: Ponder this idea. What if the colors we use as artists had no names or were forbidden to have names? Make believe that we are...

Summary: A visit to a museum can be a rich and rewarding educational experience. Looking carefully at paintings as a learning tool is a...

Summary: Artists need to understand the positive and negative aspects of painting supports. A support that appears stable and sound when...

Summary: Both in the past and the present, foods have been used as colorants for a variety of purposes. They can serve as pigments as...

Summary: A very recent news article caught my attention regarding a ban on the use of titanium dioxide white in food products within the...

Summary: Costly and elaborate advertising materials for artists’ materials have become a rarity. Specifically, hand-painted color charts...

Summary: What is the impact of continued use of lead white oil paint on the health of artists? What does health/safety literature tell us...

Summary: Making art is a two-way proposition. An artist masters the medium of their choice and bends it to their will. However, the...

Summary: Chrome colors were derived from the discovery of chromium by the French scientist, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin in 1797. Their...