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Limeproof Pigments

The following pigments will not be bleached by lime. They may be used in fresco painting or to colour lime washes and cement.

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  1. Green Earth Light Pigment

    Green Earth Light Pigment

    Starting at: £4.95

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  2. Azure Blue Pigment

    Azure Blue Pigment

    Starting at: £12.00

    Azure Blue Pigment (PB28). Inorganic pigment made from various aluminium, zinc and cobalt compounds. Semi-opaque. Weak tinting strength. Excellent Lightfastness.

    Toxicity: C

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  3. Titanium White Pigment

    Titanium White Pigment

    Starting at: £4.00

    Titanium White, or Titanium Doixide, is an artificial mineral pigment introduced in the 1920s. It is valued for its opacity, good lightfastness, and stability in all media. Its high tinting strength can render it a dominant colour in mixtures. It is very slow drying in oil, and creates a somewhat brittle paint film, though more flexible than Zinc White. Its brightness makes it a popular addition to gesso.

    Toxicity: B

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  4. Mars Black Pigment

    Mars Black Pigment

    Starting at: £5.70

    PBk11

    Mars Black is an artificial mineral pigment composed of hydrated ferric oxides. Like other Mars colours, it provides a very opaque, permanent colour, which is stable in all media. It has an average drying time in oil, forming a hard, fairly flexible film, making it more suitable for impasto application than carbon-based black pigments, which tend to be brittle. It also wets more easily than other black pigments, and possesses a warm, brownish undertone.

    Toxicity: B

    Limeproof

    Larger quantities are available by request. 

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  5. Venetian Red Pigment

    Venetian Red Pigment

    Starting at: £4.60

    Venetian Red Pigment (PR101). Iron oxide and chalk. Semi-transparent and very lightfast. Stable in all media.

    Limeproof

    Toxicity: B

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  6. Raw Umber Pigment

    Raw Umber Pigment

    Starting at: £4.00

    PBr7

    Raw Umber is a natural earth pigment composed of iron oxide, manganese, and aluminium silicate. It has its roots in the Umbria region of Italy, and was historically a popular colour for underpaintings, as it dries very quickly. It is semi-opaque, very lightfast, and stable in all media but may be difficult to disperse in acrylic. It requires a large amount of liquid when mixed with oil.

    Toxicity: B

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  7. Yellow Ochre Pigment

    Yellow Ochre Pigment

    Starting at: £4.00

    PY43

    Yellow Ochre is a natural earth pigment that has been in use since prehistoric times. It is derived from iron-rich clay deposits that are present all over the world; our Yellow Ochre comes from the hilly regions around Verona, Italy. As a pigment, it is semi-opaque, extremely lightfast, and stable in all media. It has a medium to slow drying rate in oil, creating a tough, flexible paint film. Yellow Ochre is similar in composition to Raw Sienna, but whereas Yellow Ochre contains a higher proportion of clay, Raw Sienna contains a higher proportion of silica. As a natural material, the exact colour and qualities of the resultant pigments can vary, but generally this compositional difference creates a paler, more opaque Yellow Ochre, and a darker, more transparent Raw Sienna. 

    Toxicity B

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  8. Red Ochre Pigment

    Red Ochre Pigment

    Starting at: £4.00

    PR101

    Red Ochre is a synthetic iron oxide pigment which provides the same level of semi-opacity that is associated with natural ochres. It has a good tinting strength and is stable in all media, including lime mortar. 

    Toxicity B

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  9. Golden Ochre Pigment

    Golden Ochre Pigment

    Starting at: £4.50

    PY43 Golden Ochre is a natural earth pigment, somewhat darker than Yellow Ochre. It is a semi-transparent, lightfast pigment, that is stable in all media. It has a medium to slow drying rate in oil, creating a tough, flexible paint film. Toxicity: B Limeproof Learn More
  10. Mars Yellow Pigment

    Mars Yellow Pigment

    Starting at: £4.50

    PY42

    Mars Yellow is an artificial mineral pigment, a synthetic iron oxide. Mars colours in general replace many natural earth colours to provide pigments without impurities and with great opacity. It has a good tinting strength, is lightfast and stable in all media, and has a medium drying time in oil, creating a strong, flexible paint film.

    Toxicity: B

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  11. Mars Violet Pigment

    Mars Violet Pigment

    Starting at: £4.50

    PR101

    Mars Violet is an artificial mineral pigment. Its pigment code, PR101, refers to a wide spectrum of synthetic iron oxide pigments including yellows, oranges, reds, violet-browns and green-browns, which replace many natural earth colours, to provide pigments without impurities and with great opacity. It has a good tinting strength, is lightfast and stable in all media, and has a medium drying time in oil. Although it is similar to Caput Mortuum and Indian Red, it is less transparent than the former and warmer than the latter.

    Toxicity: B

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  12. Mars Red Pigment

    Mars Red Pigment

    Starting at: £4.50

    PR101

    Mars Red is an artificial mineral pigment. Its pigment code, PR101, refers to a wide spectrum of synthetic iron oxide pigments including yellows, oranges, reds, violet-browns and green-browns, which replace many natural earth colours to provide pigments without impurities and with great opacity. It has a good tinting strength, is lightfast and stable in all media, and has a medium drying time in oil.

    Toxicity: B

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  13. Indian Red Pigment

    Indian Red Pigment

    Starting at: £4.60

    PR101

    Indian Red was imported into the UK during the nineteenth century, its present-day equivalent is a synthetic iron oxide. Its pigment code, PR101, refers to a wide spectrum of synthetic iron oxide pigments including yellows, oranges, reds, violet-browns and green-browns; Indian Red is a slightly cool, bluish shade of red. It is semi-opaque, stable in all media, lightfast, and possesses a good tinting strength 

    Toxicity: B

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  14. Burnt Green Earth Pigment

    Burnt Green Earth Pigment

    Starting at: £8.00

    PG23 Burnt Green Earth is a semi-transparent pigment that is stable in all media, although it may be difficult to incorporate into an acrylic binder. A calcined form of Green Earth, it has a low tinting strength, long drying time, and is very lightfast. Toxicity: B Limeproof Learn More
  15. Cadmium Red Pigment

    Cadmium Red Pigment

    Starting at: £6.30

    PR108

    Cadmium Red is a synthetic organic pigment, which has been in use since the 1920s, effectively replacing vermilion. It is formed by heating cadmium sulphide and selenium, the hue is determined by the level of calcination and proportion of selenium. It is very opaque, and lightfast, with a high tinting strength. It absorbs a small amount of oil, and dries very slowly to form a hard, flexible paint film.

    Larger quantities are available by request.  

    Limeproof

    Toxicity: C

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  16. Caput Mortuum Pigment

    Caput Mortuum Pigment

    Starting at: £4.50

    Caput Mortuum is a transparent, lightfast pigment that is stable in all media. Colours described as Caput Mortuum can vary greatly; our pigment is a soft purple-brown, made from a mixture of natural iron oxides. It is believed that Caput Mortuum has its roots in ancient Egypt, when colour was derived from remains that had been embalmed in asphaltum.

    Toxicity B

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  17. Terre Verte Pigment

    Terre Verte Pigment

    Starting at: £4.00

    Terre Verte, sometimes known as Green Earth, is a natural earth pigment derived from clay coloured by iron silicate. As with other natural pigments, impurities can prevent it from fully dispersing in an acrylic binder, although it is a popular pigment in all other mediums. It has been in use since antiquity, providing excellent lightfastness and great transparency, with a low tinting strength. It requires a high volume of oil, and dries slowly to create a soft, flexible paint film. When calcined, Terre Verte becomes Burnt Green Earth.
    Toxicity B Learn More

  18. Cobalt Turquoise Pigment

    Cobalt Turquoise Pigment

    Starting at: £18.00

    Toxicity: B

    Please note, unfortunately we are not able to send this product outside the UK.

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  19. Chromium Oxide Pigment

    Chromium Oxide Pigment

    Starting at: £4.50

    Chromium Oxide is a synthetic mixed-metal oxide pigment. It is stable in all media and has an average drying speed in oil, forming a hard, fairly flexible paint film. It is opaque, with a low tinting strength. It has been widely available since the mid-nineteenth century, following its introduction in 1809.

    Please note, unfortunately we are not able to send this product outside the UK.

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  20. Cobalt Violet Light Pigment

    Cobalt Violet Light Pigment

    Starting at: £10.00

    Cobalt Violet Light Pigment (PV14). Synthetic inorganic pigment. Semi-opaque. Weak tinting strength. Excellent Lightfastness. Fast drying rate. Good for oil and watercolour but not acrylic as pigment 'settles out'. Used since early 1900's. This colour cannot be matched through mixing other colours.

    Limeproof

    Toxicity: C

    Please note, unfortunately we are not able to send this product outside the UK.

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  21. Cobalt Violet Dark Pigment

    Cobalt Violet Dark Pigment

    Starting at: £13.90

    Cobalt Violet Dark Pigment (PV14). Synthetic inorganic pigment. Semi-transparent. High tinting strength. Excellent Lightfastness. Low oil absorption with fast drying rate. All media including ceramics. Used since late 19th Century.

    Limeproof

    Toxicity: C

    Please note, unfortunately we are not able to send this product outside the UK.

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  22. Ultramarine Blue Limewash Pigment

    Ultramarine Blue Limewash Pigment

    Starting at: £6.30

    PB29

    Ultramarine Blue Limewash is an artificial mineral pigment that is produced by heating clay, soda, sulphur and coal to high temperatures. Its name comes from outremer, or over-the-sea, as a reference to the highly-prized Lapis Lazuli pigment which had been imported into Europe from Afghanistan since the Middle Ages. First manufactured in France and Germany in 1828, synthetic Ultramarine provided a brilliant and affordable blue to artists, and it remains one of the most popular blues on artists' palettes today.

    It is a transparent pigment, with a high tinting strength and excellent lightfastness. Most Ultramarine colours It react to alkali and are therefore unsuitable for use in lime-fresco; Limeproof Ultramarine Blue remedies this problem. It is stable in all other media, although it can be tricky to grind in oil. Instead of creating a thick, buttery paste, it can remain stringy and deteriorate when stored in a tube. To correct this, many commercial paint manufacturers include additives and waxes in their recipes; if you intend on grinding your own paint, you could try replacing 10-15% of your Linseed Oil with Poppy Oil to improve the consistency. Ultramine Blue provides a slow-drying, fairly hard paint film, which can tend towards brittleness.

    Toxicity: B

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  23. Cobalt Blue Pigment

    Cobalt Blue Pigment

    Starting at: £6.30

    PB28

    Cobalt Blue is an artificial mineral pigment, produced by the calcination of cobalt oxide and aluminium oxide. It has been widely used since the early 1800s, following its discovery by the French chemist Thenard at the beginning of the century. The name Cobalt has its roots in the German word Kobold, meaning imp or evil spirit. German miners named it to in the late-Middle Ages, as the presence of cobalt ore in the mines made the extraction of silver more difficult. They were possibly also aware of the toxic properties of the mineral that was frustrating their efforts.

    Cobalt remains a very popular colour today, and is present in most ranges of paints, being a semi-transparent pigment that is stable in all media. As a watercolour, all cobalt pigments tend to granulate. As an oil paint, it requires less oil content than most other pigments, and dries quite quickly. Like Cerulean Blue, some artists may choose to bind it with poppy oil, to avoid any possible colour changes brought about by the yellowish cast of linseed oil and the pigment's weak tinting strength.

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    Toxicity: C

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  24. Cerulean Blue Pigment

    Cerulean Blue Pigment

    Starting at: £12.60

    PB35

    Cerulean Blue is an artificial mineral pigment that is prepared by heating a mixture of Cobalt Chloride and Potassium Stannate. It was first synthesised in the early nineteenth century, becoming more widely used from 1870, when Rowney introduced Coeruleum Blue into their range. It produces a very bright, clear, and unusually opaque blue, hence its name, which is derived from the Latin for "sky-blue", or perhaps "heaven-blue". It has a very low tinting strength meaning that, although it is stable in all media, some artists may choose to bind it in poppy rather than linseed oil, so that the colour isn't affected by the colour of the binder. It creates a fairly flexible paint film, and is a fast-to-medium drying pigment.

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    Toxicity: B

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  25. Cadmium Brown Pigment

    Cadmium Brown Pigment

    Starting at: £10.00

    PR108

    Cadmium Brown is a shade of Cadmium Red, a synthetic organic pigment that has been in use since the 1920s. It is formed by heating cadmium sulphide and selenium, the hue is determined by the level of calcination and proportion of selenium. It is very opaque, and lightfast, with a high tinting strength. It absorbs a small amount of oil, and dries very slowly to form a hard, flexible paint film.

    Larger quantities are available by request.  

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    Toxicity: C

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  26. Cadmium Vermilion Pigment

    Cadmium Vermilion Pigment

    Starting at: £7.50

    PR108

    Cadmium Red is a synthetic organic pigment that has been in use since the 1920s. It is formed by heating cadmium sulphide and selenium, the hue is determined by the level of calcination and proportion of selenium. It is very opaque, and lightfast, with a high tinting strength. It absorbs a small amount of oil, and dries very slowly to form a hard, flexible paint film. This shade has been formulated to imitate the bright hue of vermilion.

    Larger quantities are available by request.  

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    Toxicity: C

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  27. Cadmium Red Deep Pigment

    Cadmium Red Deep Pigment

    Starting at: £10.10

    PR108

    Cadmium Red Deep is a synthetic organic pigment, which has been in use since the 1920s, effectively replacing vermilion. It is formed by heating cadmium sulphide and selenium, the hue is determined by the level of calcination and proportion of selenium. It is very opaque, and lightfast, with a high tinting strength. It absorbs a small amount of oil, and dries very slowly to form a hard, flexible paint film.

    Larger quantities are available by request.  

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    Toxicity: C

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