After lots of editing issues, the color study of Caput Mortuum and Cobalt blue is online and live.

Enjoy my lovely granulating loving friends!

https://lanagoesart.com/blog/2025/March/20250323-caput-mortuum-cobalt-blue-study-watercolor/

Caput Mortuum is such a lovely deep violet brown pigment with heavy granulation, that I had to pair it with the also granulating Cobalt blue for most joy.

From oxidized metals, foraged plants, and botanical inks and dyes, Cyrah Dardas derives colors and textures from materials found in the earth.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/02/cyrah-dardas-paintings-on-paper/

Les différentes étapes de broyage de peinture :

- mélange des pigments
- ajout du liant pour Aquarelle
- mélange et broyage des grains
- mise en godets ou en moules de la peinture pour la laisser sécher

Nicole McLaughlin draws upon the rich traditions of historically domestic crafts to reconsider their roles today, merging ceramics and textiles into elegant, cascading wall sculptures.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/nicole-mclaughlin-sculptures/

#Mayan ceramicist Luis May Ku recreates spectacular #MayaBlue #pigment, lost to the world for two centuries: https://aje.io/s73g7p #Indigenous #FirstNations #art #ceramics #sculpture #colour #color #science #anthropology #archaeology #archeology

Kyanite is used in porcelain(more dishware and plumbing than art) but it is used in jewelry. Plus it is an index mineral. But I am going to give the art vote to Dioptase for its unparalleled history as a pigment which stretches back to the Neolithic! For the #MinCup24 semi-finals and the last surviving pigment in competition!