Description
Stoneground Tyrian Cobalt Purple Watercolour
Stoneground Tyrian Cobalt Purple is a deep, moody watercolour that is perfect wherever shadows are required and creates interesting grey-violets when used in washes.
Artist’s Notes: This is a muted, dark cool grey violet incredibly useful in rendering stormy skies and moody atmospheric scenes with clouds and rain. It is also helpful in evening scenes and seascapes.
Paint Maker’s Notes: Stoneground Tyrian Cobalt Purple is similar in hue to the historic pigment used in antiquity. This pigment was made from sea snails and was prohibitively expensive, worn only by the Roman elite.
Details:
- Transparency: Semi-Transparent
- Staining: Staining
- Granularity: Semi-Granular
- Pigment Number: PB 36
- Pigment Type: Synthetic Inorganic
- Composition: Oxides of cobalt and chromium
- Lightfastness: I – Excellent
- Non-toxic with appropriate use.
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About Stoneground Paint Co.
Inspired by nature and made by hand, Stoneground crafts their paint in small batches the traditional way. This assures the quality and vivid reflective nature of handmade paint. They combine the world’s finest pigments with a binder made only of locally sourced organic honey, and the world’s finest Gum Arabic. Foregoing the use of fillers, and extenders, as well as preservatives, which muddy and dull paint unnecessarily.
Historically, artists had a deep understanding of their art supplies, often sourcing their own pigments, as well as making their own paints. Their binders were made by hand, and their pigments sought out based on effects, properties, or rarity. Their artwork was only as good as the supplies they created for themselves.
The Stoneground Paint Co., is passionate about re-establishing the lost connection between artists and their supplies.
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