Most paints these days are made from very bright, synthetic pigments that are meant for various industries. The price of these pigments can be very low since they sell them by the ton for making car paint, cosmetics, plastic, wood stains, brick colours, and the list goes on. Fine art paint is a very small segment of the market. Yet there are still 'old fashioned' pigments used to make paint for artists. In this painting I used paints from a Canadian company called Stone Ground Paint, which has a product line that uses mostly natural pigments. These natural paints tend to be hard to work with, it takes more effort to get colour on the paper, and even then it dries somewhat dull. But not every painting needs to be blazing bright. Using these natural paints puts the emphasis on design and brushwork. It is also kind of neat to know that some of these pigments are similar to those used hundreds of years ago.
Ground Stone Paint, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, May 2022
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