Creating your own paint is a great way to cut costs while exerting greater control over the shades and effects you desire. Dry pigment powder can be combined with binders to create a variety of ...

The color blue has always displayed a special spiritual significance in the history of art. Natural blue mineral pigments for use in painting are limited to the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli and ...

Back at the beginning of December, I read an article about how Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams had revived the process George Washington Carver used to produce a blue pigment using ...

We see colors in nature: a blue sky, a red frog, a peacock's feathers. But those colors are created by the reflection of light off atoms. To reproduce color for paints, cosmetics or dyes, we need ...

Dragonflies and unicorns, abstract shapes and mandalas fill the walls inside the studio space. The carefully crafted works by Michele Burns beam color and creativity underneath the studio’s lights.

Creating your own paint is a great way to cut costs while exerting greater control over the shades and effects you desire. Dry pigment powder can be combined with binders to create a variety of ...