THE SYNTAX OF COLOR

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

Summary: Plein air painting is defined as the act of capturing nature outdoors. The origins and evolution of the movement have changed...

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,...

Summary: This is the story of how a good idea crashes into a dead end. It illustrates the complexity of what artists encounter if they...

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: Looking over the Horizon - As both an artist and a chairman of an ASTM subcommittee focused on quality standards for the art...

In part one I discussed the benefits of solid panel supports and how they outperformed stretched canvas in every way except weight. ...

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