Documents and media
Pip Seymour Early Watercolours
Naples Yellow, genuine 4 PY 41 Historic lead-stannate pigment. High tinting strength, very opaque. Typical “body” colour when used in watercolour.
Carmine lake, genuine 4 NR 4 Prepared from female Cochineal insects (Origin: Peru). Very intense deep crimson red lake. Very transparent. Cinnabar, natural vermilion 4 PR 106 Monte Amiata Cinnabar, form the original mine at Abbadia S. Salvatore in Tuscany. Unique hydro-thermal “Strawberry” form mineral. Crushed to 50micron. Slightly grainy. Semi-opaque. Vermilion, genuine 5 PR 106 Process Vermilion. Solid, opaque. Bright deep tone. Malachite - genuine 5 PG 39 Bright unique mineral pigment. Copper carbonate. Semi-opaque. Sieved to 50 micron. Azurite – genuine 6 PB 30 Pure blue mineral pigment (Copper carbonate), Milled in Safflower Oil. Semi-Opaque. Lapis lazuli – genuine 7 PB 29 (natural ultramarine) South American, pure Lapis lazuli. Semi-transparent. Lapis lazuli Ashes 5 PB 29 (natural ultramarine) Crushed pale lapis rocks - yields a beautiful soft blue-grey glazing pigment. Sieved to 50 micron. Hangman’s Lodge Ironstone 2 natural earth Yellow clay from upland Ribblesdale. Semi-transparent. Hand dug in , crushed, sieved and sieved to 50micron. Oxford Ochre 2 natural earth Hand dug in Oxfordshire, crushed, sieved and sieved to 50micron. Warm-yellow brown tone. Unique hand-processed colour. Semi-transparent. Plumpton Iron Ore, Cumbria 2 natural earth Hand-dug violet brown iron ore, from old pits near Ulverston in Furness, Cumbria. Oxford Mudstone (Davy’s Grey) 1 natural earth Hand dug in Oxfordshire, crushed, sieved and sieved to 50micron. Neutral soft grey tone - perfect match for the original 19C Davy’s Grey. Unique hand-processed colour. Semi-transparent. Payne’s Grey 3 mixed pigments Relates to the original formula (as proposed by the English watercolourist William Payne 1760 - 1830). We use a Blue-Grey Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, admixed with Oxford Mudstone (Davy’s Grey) and Plumpton Iron Ore. Honister Pass Green Slate, Cumbria 2 natural earth Deep level metamorphic slate from the Cumbrian mountains. The material is dug from working settling ponds and ground to 50micron. Semi-transparent pale green-grey. Oxford Bluestone (English Green Earth) 2 natural earth Hand dug in Oxfordshire, crushed, sieved and sieved to 50micron. Deep green-brown tone. Unique hand-processed colour. Transparent.













