Site Map / Index this page is divided into 3 sections: General paint info Paint ingredients Paint making methods General paint info Characteristics, history, safety,  tools,  equipment, artist's, etc All the background resources you need to safely make paint in the studio. The advantages and disadvantages, and history. Info on pigments and paint making are listed in separate sections below. 17th, 18th, 19th century palettes 20th century palette Ackermann's color list from 1801 Acrylic paints - characteristics Acrylic Paint - compared to Egg Tempera Advantages of making paint Alkyds - characteristics Alkyd paints - characteristics Ancient Egyptian paint history Ancient Egyptian palette Ancient Greek paint history Chalks - characteristics Characteristics Of Paints Difference between drawing media and paints Difference between paints, inks, and dyes Disadvantages of making paint Drawing media - chalks Drawing media - characteristics Drawing media - pastels Egg Tempera - adhesiveness Egg tempera paints - characteristics Egg Tempera - advantages Egg Tempera - compared to Acrylic Egg Tempera - drying rate Egg Tempera - durability Egg Tempera - ease of making Egg Tempera - origins Empty tubes Emulsion paints - characteristics Encaustic - Cestrum / Ancient Greek implements Encaustic - characteristics Encaustic - durability Encaustic - early tomb of Encaustic artist Encaustic - revival in modern times Equipment Frequently Asked Questions Fresco - ancient origins at Minos Fresco - characteristics Fresco - demands on the artist Fresco - durability Gouache paints - characteristics Greco-Roman palette Greg Hansell Grinding Slab - best size and type Grinding Slab - grinding the surface with carborundum Grinding Slab - setting up for use History of colors 1700 to 1899 History Of Oils How to use this site Knives Lake - origins Links Mortar and pestle Muller - size, shape, type Oil - characteristics Oil paints - characteristics Organizing the studio Paint characteristics Pastels - characteristics Pliers Polymer paints - characteristics Pre-historic paints Pros and cons of making paint Renaissance palette Roman paint history Safety - clean up Safety - dust masks Safety - get info first Safety - keep away from children Safety - lead based pigments Safety - protect wounds Safety - responsibility is yours Safety - smoking and eating Safety equipment - low toxicity Safety equipment - medium toxicity Safety equipment - high toxicity Saving money making paint Scraper Spatula Stone age paint history Stone Age palette Studio - organization Studio - rubbish bin / clean up Studio - running water and sink / tub Studio - safety Studio - tidy work practices Studio - value of plastic containers Suggestion Box Tempera paints - characteristics Tony Johansen Tools and equipment Tools - knives Tools - mortar and pestle Tools - muller and slab Tools - pliers and tubes Tools - safety equipment Tools - scraper Tools - spatula Tubes - empty Watercolor paints Paint ingredients Pigments, binders, additives, etc Colors listed and described, oils, resins gums waxes, driers, fillers, extenders, suitability for use, toxicity, characteristics, and permanency information. 17th, 18th, 19th century palettes 20th century palette Academy Blue Ackermann's color list from 1801 Acrylic - Binder Medium Acrylic - Gel Medium Acrylic - Impasto Medium Acrylic - Iridescent Medium Acrylic - Modifiers Acrylic - Retarder Medium Acrylic - Spreader Medium Acrylic - Surface Tension Breaker Adulterants Aged Slaked Lime Alcohol - Grain Alcohol Alcohol - Methanol Alcohol - Methylated Spirits Alexandrian Blue Alizarin Crimson Alizarin Crimson (historic) Alkyd Oil Modified Resins Alum Alumina Hydrate Aluminum Stearate Ancient Egyptian palette Aniline Dyes Anthrapyrimidine Yellow Anthraquinoid Red Anthraquinone Reds Anthraquinone Yellows Antimony Orange Antimony Vermilion Antwerp Blue Artramentum Arylide Yellow Asbestine Asian and American colors Asphaltum Attic Sil Aureolin (Cobalt Yellow) Auripigmentum Azo Yellow Azure Blue Azurite Barium Yellow Barytes Basic ingredients Beeswax Bentonite Benzimidazolone Maroon Benzimidazolone Red Benzimidazolone Yellows Bianco Sangiovani Bice Bismuth White Bismuth Yellow Bistre Bitumen Black Iron Oxide Black Lead Black Oil Black pigments Blanc Fixe Blue Frit Blue pigments Blue Verditer Bohemian Earth Bole Bone Black Bordeaux Brazilwood Bremen Blue Bremen Green Brominated Anthraquinone Bronze Blue Bronze pigment Brown Lake Brown Madder Brown Ochre Brown pigments Brown Pink Brown Red Brunswick Green Burgundy Burnt Carmine Burnt Green Earth Burnt Sienna Burnt Umber Cadmium Green Cadmium Orange Cadmium Red Cadmium Yellow Cadmium Yellow Light (Cadmium-Zinc Yellow) Calcined Vitriol Calcite Calcium Carbonate Caput Mortuum Carbazole Violet Carbon Black Carbonic Black Carmine Carmined Lake Carnauba Wax Carthame Cassel Earth Celadon Green Cerulean Blue Chalk (as white pigment) Charcoal Black Cherry Gum China Clay Chinese Blue Chinese Vermilion Chinese White Chromates Chrome Green Chrome Orange Chrome Red Chrome Yellow Chromium Green Oxide Chrysocolla Cinnabar Coal Tar Dyes Cobalt Blue Cobalt Blue (origin of name) Cobalt Green Cobalt Linoleate Cobalt Napthalenate Cobalt Stannate Cobalt Ultramarine Cobalt Violet Cobalt Yellow (Aureolin) Cochineal Cologne Earth Copper pigment Cremnitz White Cyan Damar Varnish Dammar Diarylide Yellow Diazo Yellow Dioxazine Violet Distilled water Dragon's Blood Driers Drop Black Drop Lake Drying Oils Dutch Pink Egg Tempera - advantages Egg Tempera - country eggs Egg Tempera - emulsion Egg Tempera - fresh laid eggs Egg Tempera - modern eggs Egyptian Blue Egyptian Brown Egyptian Green Emerald Green Emulsions Enamel Blue Encaustic / Damar Recipe English Pink English Red Fillers Flake White Flavanthrone Yellow Folium Frankfurt Black French Green French White Fresco - suggested palette Furnace Black Gall Stone Gamboge Gelatin Geranium Lake Gilders Whiting Glass beads Gofun Shirayuki Gold pigment Grain Alcohol Greco-Roman palette Green Earth Green Lake Green pigments Green Verditer Grinding Oils Guinet's Green Gum - Arabic Gum - Cherry Gum - Karaya Gum - Tragacanth Gum Turpentine Gypsum Haarlem Blue Hansa Yellow Hansa Yellow Medium Hartshorn Hempseed Oil Hide Glue Hooker's Green Indanthrone Blue Indian Lake Indian Red Indian Yellow Indigo Inert pigments Interference colors Iridescent pigments Iris Green Iron Black Iron Blue Iron Yellow Isoindolone Yellow Isoviolanthrone Violet Ivory Black Jaune Brilliant (modern) Kaolin Kermes Ketone Resin Kings Yellow Lac (Lake) Lamp Black Lapis Lazuli Lazuline Blue Lead Stannate Lead-Tin Yellow Lead White Leaf Green Lemon Yellow Light Green Oxide Light Lake Light Red Light White Lime - aged, slaked Linseed Oils Linseed Oil - Alkali Refined Linseed Oil - Blown Oil Linseed Oil -Boiled Oil Linseed Oil - Cold Pressed Linseed Oil - Raw Linseed Oil - Stand Oil Linseed Oil -Sunbleached Liquin Litharge Lithopone Madder Lake Malachite Manganese Violet Marble Chip Marble Dust Mars Black Mars Brown Mars Red Mars Violet Mars Yellow Massicot Mastic Metallic pigments Methanol Methylated Spirits Mica (inert pigment) Mica pigments Mica Titanate Milori Blue Mineral Green Mineral Turpentine Mineral Yellow Minium Monastral Blue Monastral Green Monoazo Mummy Nacreous pigments Naples Yellow Napthol Carbamide Napthol Carmine Napthol Reds Neutral Tint Nickel Azo Yellow Nickel Titanate Yellow Nut Oil Ochre Odorless Turpentine Oil Of Spike Lavender Oil Paint Oils Oleopasto Olive Green Orange pigments Orpiment Oxgall Paint binders Paint vehicles Paris Blue Paris Green Paris White Patent Yellow Peach Black Pearlescent pigments Perinone Orange Perinone Red Deep Permanent Carmine Permanent Green Permanent Red Permanent White Peryline Maroon Peryline Reds Peryline Scarlet Peryline Vermilion Pigments - ASTM Pigments - chemical type Pigments - common name Pigments - extenders Pigments - fillers Pigments - historic Pigments - inert Pigments - iridescent Pigments - media suitability Pigments - metallic Pigments - micaceous Pigments - miscellaneous Pigments - nacreous Pigments - pearlescent Pigments - pigment lists Pigments - toxicity Platina Yellow Polymer resin emulsions Poppy Oil Pozzuoli Blue Pozzuoli Red Precipitated Chalk Primary Blue Primary Red Primary Yellow Prussian Blue Prussian Green Pthalo Blue Pthalo Green Pthalocyanine Blue Pthalocyanine Green Pumice Pyrrole Alizarin Pyrrole Red Quartz Quercitron Lake Quinacridone Burnt Orange Quinacridone Gold Quinacridone Magenta Quinacridone Permanent Rose Quinacridone Red Quinacridone Violet Rabbitskin Glue Raw Sienna Raw Umber Realgar Red Orpiment Red Oxide Red pigments Refined Beeswax Renaissance palette Rose Lake Rose Madder Rose Madder Genuine Rose Pink Royal Smalt Safflower (color) Safflower Oil Saffron Sandaraca Sanders Blue Sanders Green Sanguis Draconis Sap Green (historic) Sap Green (modern) Saturnine Red Saunder's Blue Saxon Blue Scheele's Green Sepia Siccatif de Courtrai Siccatif de Haarlem Siccatives Sienna Silica Silver White Sinopia Skin Tone Slaked lime (aged) Smalt Solferino Solvents - Alcohol Solvents - distilled water Solvents - Grain Alcohol Solvents - Gum Turpentine Solvents - Methylated Spirits Solvents - Mineral Turpentine Solvents - Odorless Turpentine Solvents - Oil Of Spike Lavender Solvents - Strasbourg Turpentine Solvents - Thinners Solvents - Venice Turpentine Solvents - wetting agents Solvents - water Spanish Black Stabilizers Still-de-Grain Stone Age palette Srasbourg Turpentine Strontium Yellow Suggestion Box Sunflower Oil Sunproof Colors Surface Tension Breaker Talc Terra Alba Terra Marita Terre Vert Textural Fillers Thenard's Blue Thinners Thioindigoid Red Titanium White Transparent Copper Resinate Transparent Red Oxide Tumeric Turners Yellow (historic) Turner's Yellow (modern) Turpentine - Gum Turpentine - Mineral Turpentine - Odorless Turpentine - Oil Of Spike Lavender Turpentine - Strasbourg Turpentine - Venice Turquoise Tyrian Purple Ultramarine (historic) Ultramarine Ashes Ultramarine Blue Ultramarine Green Ultramarine Red Ultramarine Violet Ultramarine Yellow Umber Unbleached Titanium Underpainting White Uranium Yellow Vanadium Yellow Van Dyke Brown (historic) Van Dyke Brown (modern) Vegetable Black Venetian Red Venice Turpentine Verdaccio Verdigris Vermiculite Vermilion Veronese Green Verzino Victoria Green Vine Black Violet Carmine Violet Blue Violet pigments Viridian Vitriol Walnut Oil Water Weld Wetting agents - Oxgall Wetting agents - Surface Tension Breaker White Lead White pigments Whiting Woad Yellow Lake Yellow Ochre Yellow Oxide Yellow pigments Zinc Green Zinc Stearate Zinc White Zinc Yellow Zinnober Zinnober Green Zirconium Cerulean Blue Paint making Methods, formulas, etc How to make various paints, traditional and modern methods, demonstrations, recipes, and related information. Beeswax - how to add to Linseed Oil Chalks - grinding with mortar and pestle Chalks - how to make tints Chalks - preparing the binder Chalks - storage Chalks - using Gum Tragacanth Egg Tempera - grinding  pigments into egg yolk Egg Tempera - judging freshness of eggs Egg Tempera - Making a traditional hide glue chalk gesso ground Egg Tempera - proportion of egg for popular pigments Egg Tempera - separating the yolk Egg Tempera - storing the paint, tubes or jars? Egg Tempera - trouble shooting Encaustic - adding the pigment Encaustic - preparing the wax / damar mixture Encaustic - storing the colored waxes Fresco - grinding colors on the slab Fresco - Making Bianco Sangiovani Fresco - storing Fresco colors Gouache - dispersal (grinding) on slab or mortar Gouache - making the gum solution Gouache - storage in tubes or jars Hide Glue Chalk Gesso - method Making pigment pastes Oil Paint - adding wax as stabilizer Oil Paint - dispersing the pigment Oil Paint - filling tubes Oil Paint - grinding on the slab Pastels - grinding with mortar and pestle Pastels - how to make tints Pastels - preparing the binder Pastels - proportion of binder for common pigments Pastels - storage Pastels - using Gum Tragacanth Predispersal of pigments Suggestion Box Testing - Blue Wool Scale Testing - formulation Testing - lightfastness Testing - making test cards Testing - record keeping Watercolor - dispersal (grinding) on the slab Watercolor - making the gum solution Watercolor - tubes, jars, and pans