Ep. 43- Paint Pigments with Gamblin (Mini Episode)
We often talk about color on this show…hue, value, saturation… but at the heart of all of that is the pigments themselves. In Mini Episode 43, I sit down with Mary Weisenburger from Gamblin Artist Paints and we get down to the nuts and bolts of what makes paint paint.
And while we look through the lens of oil paint in particular, so much of what we talk about is true for acrylic, watercolor, and gouache as well.
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Mary mentioned an article: Mineral and Modern Pigments: Painters’ Access to Color
In the episode we talk about:
1:31 What’s inside a tube of paint
2:43 The role of binder
4:25 Granular level of pigments
5:15 Particle size and opacity
6:37 Particle size and tinting
9:06 Professional v. student grade
12:56 How does oil “dry”
14:56 Fat over lean
15:58 When to start considering opacity
17:38 Looking through particles
18:17 Viscosity of paints
20:48 Basic kit for getting started in oils
22:31 Understanding the labeling on a tube of Gamblin paints
26:21 Understand the difference between light, medium and deep
28:27 Looking at history of pigments
31:29 Translating oil to water media
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