Painting technique is a dauntingly large, and rather vague, subject to discuss. We could provisionally define “technique” as the skills involved in accomplishing a certain artistic intent. But this leaves the notion of “artistic intent” unexamined (it obviously takes...
On this occasion I was approached by the architectural paint researcher Helen Hughes who was part of the English Heritage team endeavouring to analyse, and so to reproduce, various colours which constituted the original decorative schemes uncovered during the...
At this point the physics of light becomes less important than simply positing some useful models of colour organization. The colour wheel introduced above must be familiar to most readers, but if it is given three “spokes” or diameters then we have three axes of the...
This project was initiated by a consortium of galleries and Birkbeck College, London University, with the aim of evaluating the air quality of the indoor environments of museums, art galleries and historic houses containing paintings.Tests for ascertaining air quality...
As I said, organic pigments are constituted of what was, at some time, plant or animal matter. And again they divide into the natural and those resulting from sophisticated manufacture. The natural ones were made simply by crushing up insect or vegetable tissue (e.g....
