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Alternatives to solvent for cleaning 🧼
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Sansodor™️ performs like turpentine but its low odour makes it the least hazardous solvent. Also good for diluting paint, cleaning brushes and creating your own mediums. Evaporates slowly and increases blending time. Well suited to artists who prefer to avoid exposure to turpentine and white spirit.
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Winsor & Newton’s brush cleaner is a water mixable solvent that removes dried oil, alkyd and acrylic colour from brushes and does not harm the artist or artists’ tools. For most effective cleaning, soak overnight and scrub if necessary. Rinse afterwards with water and allow the tools to dry thoroughly before using them again.
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@winsorandnewton@colart_united@tfacuk
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Happy @worldpigmentday ! Fantastic talks on colour poetry and pigment thanks to Jo Volley @materialresearchproject
With so many beautiful pigments available to us, it’s hard to choose a favourite. Like George Field, where possible, I am always in favour of single pigments, but as a lover of William Payne’s grey and William Hooker’s green I know there are occasions where a careful composition of pigments is required. So my favourite composition of pigments is ultramarine ash. @winsorandnewton have created a stunning alternative to the prohibitively expensive ashes of lapis lazuli. Lapis is very beautiful and the intensity of its colour can vary as my photograph taken with Dr Ruth Siddall at an archive day at Winsor & Newton shows. However stunning these ultramarines are, it’s the subtle delicacy of the colour from the ashes I have always been drawn to. Seeing the differing tints in the original Winsor & Newton tint books and the George Field notebooks in their archive; kept away from daylight, with all the original pigments, means that the new formulation of the colour is matched with its original. I love to mix my own greys, but creating ones that are transparent that provide tinting opportunities with other colours without making them opaque, is tricky. Not only is this ultramarine ash a beautiful transparent colour in its own right , but also, despite being made from more than one pigment it offers beautiful tints when mixed with other colours. It is quite distinctly different from other greys.
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The Nomenclature of Colours IV, curated by @stephanienpartistcurator , accompanied Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VIII. Thank you to all the artists who contributed.
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Check out the 🔗 in bio for the online exhibition.
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I’ll be talking about pigments in animals and their preservation in the fossil record at Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VIII this Saturday. You can watch the whole meeting online - register at the link in my bio
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A wonderful visit to the @winsorandnewton archive to learn all about the different sorts of materials that go into paint - notebooks of recipes, pigments, and the histories behind the colours. Big thanks to @stephanienpartistcurator ❤️
Mark your calendars. Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VIII returns 21-22 March, celebrating International Colour Day, World Poetry Day, and World Pigment Day. Expect presentations, readings, performances, and hands-on workshops spanning art, science, and industry. Tune in online on the 21st - 🔗 in bio.
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A peek inside our latest Colour & Poetry publication. Explore the full archive of symposium publications as PDFs at the 🔗 in bio.
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The primary triad in action. @rowlands840 guided us through the art and science of colour mixing - demonstrating how to desaturate the primary colours using their complementaries, and how to mix rich browns and blacks directly from red, yellow, and blue. These scales reveal the infinite possibilities within a restricted palette: harmony, diversity and complete chromatic control.
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Gold leaf gilding 101: smooth out those creases before they stick. Watch as @rowlands840 demonstrates the delicate art of handling loose leaf - using a knife to carefully turn and smooth out creases before adhesion. The patience and technique here are what separate a flawless gilded surface from a compromised one.
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Exploring how iridescent and metallic paints transform colour and light - from contemporary formulations like these @winsorandnewton metallics to the ancient art of mordant gilding.
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Works painted by @jo.volley
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Hot off the press! 🔥Our newest publication for Colour & Poetry is finally here, launched with a showing of the Nomenclature of Colour III curated by @stephanienpartistcurator . Many thanks to @lesley_sharpe for all her hard work on the publication, to @corner7camden for hosting our launch and to all the contributors!
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Last week we were able to look at a range of mediums from @winsorandnewton and @lefrancbourgeoisofficiel to test with oils.
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Here’s the thing: mediums and vehicles aren’t the same (although the words are sometimes used interchangeably) and understanding the difference changes how you paint.
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A vehicle is the liquid binder that carries pigment - linseed oil, walnut oil, etc. It’s what makes paint flow.
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A medium is what you add to paint to modify its properties. It might contain a vehicle, but it also can contain resins, solvents or driers that change how the paint behaves. Liquin, for example, is an alkyd resin that speeds drying dramatically while maintaining workability. Stand oil thickens paint and reduces brushstrokes.
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In our tests, you can see how these change application, drying time and surface finish. Some stay glossy, others matte. Some dry in hours, others take days. Don’t just reach for linseed oil and call it a day. Know what you’re adding and why. Your paint will thank you.
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Big thanks to Winsor & Newton and Lefranc Bourgeois for the materials. ✨
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