I like the natural earth colors I already have, and they will probably be much used in future paintings, but I want to expand and refine my choices as far as Reds, Blues, Greens and Purples. So I went back looking at a few suppliers, which interestingly enough seem to carry different ranges of pigments. I finally settled on SINOPIA PIGMENTS, and placed an order for 9 reasonably prices pigments:
 | DC7300/75 DC7300 Cadmium Orange Deep weight: 75g jar |
$18.00 x 1
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$18.00
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 | DC1100/75 DC1100 Cadmium Yellow Medium weight: 75g jar |
$16.00 x 1
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$16.00
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 | DG133/75 DG133 Chrome Oxide Green Opaque weight: 75g jar |
$9.00 x 1
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$9.00
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 | DC90C/75 DC90C Ultramarine Red, antique pink weight: 75g jar |
$11.00 x 1
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$11.00
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 | 799G1001A/50 799G1001A Mayan Green Pigment weight: 50g jar |
$9.00 x 1
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$9.00
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 | DCV8/75 DCV8 Ultramarine Violet, Reddish Light weight: 75g jar |
$11.00 x 1
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$11.00
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 | DCF36/75 DCF36 Ultramarine Blue, reddish weight: 75g jar |
$9.00 x 1
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$9.00
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 | DCFG75/75 DCFG75 Ultramarine Blue, greenish light weight: 75g jar |
$9.00 x 1
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$9.00
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 | 799V1000/50 799V1000 Mayan Violet Pigment weight: 50g jar |
$9.00 x 1
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$9.00
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I am of course going to keep mixing pigments in the Encaustic Medium, but I have discovered that simply sprinkling pigments on the wax and fusing can create just the kinds of visual textures I like, with fine detail, lines and specks. A lot of pigments are very dark in their natural form, and need to be mixed in a medium for the color to show. So I paid particular attention to the more brightly colored pigments that still have good tinting strength, so they can serve both purposes.
Of course, I would love to use the more exotic rare pigments such as Cinnabar, Azurite, Malachite, Lapis, but at $30 for 10 or 20g...
I was intrigued with the collection of Mayan pigments, and ordered the violet to test, as they seem to have mostly very poor tinting strength.
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