Pigments through the Ages

              
/ cop • per   rez • uh • nate /
Copper resinate 
 
   

     
 

  1.  Overview  
  2. History
of use
 
  3. Making the
pigment
 
  4. Technical
details
 
  
  How Copper resinate is made:
        
Artificial variety of pigment
Turpentine, sometimes waxes, and pieces of verdigris are boiled together, and the resulting viscous, transparent mass is allowed to dry, and later pulverized.


Other greens        
(intro) - Cobalt green - copper resinate - Emerald green - Green earth - malachite      
verdigris - viridian        

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  blacks  

    
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