Product information Pigments Black shades – black is not always black

There are very often different black shades with different The shade “Ivory black” is available in following Schmincke ® designations in artist color assortments. Apart from the colour ranges: MUSSINI , ® name the different components of which the colours are Norma Professional, ® made are reason for the various shades. Some premium HORADAM AQUARELL, ® colour ranges contain several black shades due to the PRIMAcryl , Pigments, ® ® ® respective painting technique (e.g. MUSSINI , HORADAM HORADAM Gouache, ® ® AQUARELL or Norma Professional). In the lower-priced HKS Gouache, ® ® segments i.e. AKADEMIE or College lines the black Calligraphy Gouache, shade is simply called “black” and consists of a mixture of auqa Linoprint various black pigments. For a better overview you find some basic information on Schmincke black shades within the individual colour ranges in the following: Additional black shades Apart from the two classical black shades some assort- Lamp black ments contain additionally: History: Soot-black, black color used by artists, which was extracted from the soot of oil lamps, petroleum lamps, tal- Mineral black: low lights etc. The soot - designated as “light soot” in earlier cool, shimmering black with a light pass times- has been scraped off a baffle plate placed over the ® to antracite; e.g. in MUSSINI flame specially for this purpose. Lamp black was available at no charge but greasy and therefore of substantial worse quality than leg or ivory black. Neutral black: a black without black pigment, ideally for darkening coloured ® Today: Deep, cool high-quality black, opaque and usually shades; e.g. in Norma Professional very lightfast, gained through the incomplete burn of orga- ® nic substances such as gas or oil. Consists of pure carbon. Furthermore there are black iron oxide (Norma Professional), velvet-black (Calligraphy Gouache) as well as black ® ® ® (AKADEMIE water-colours, PRIMAcryl , AKADEMIE The shade “Lamp-black” is available ® ® acrylic colours College acrylic colours, AKADEMIE in the following Schmincke colour ® ® ® ranges: MUSSINI , AKADEMIE Oil Gouache, AERO COLOR Professional) and in the pastel ® color, HORADAM water-colours, range: black and deep black. ® AKADEMIE Acrylic colours Pigments

10 781 Lamp black Ivory black HHHHH ■ History: Name for an acid and alkali-resistant well opaque pigment, which was said to be used already centuries 10 780 Ivory black before Christ to paint pictures. The pigment was extracted HHHHH ■ by glowing, that means carbonizing the degreased (boiled) ivory wastes. Ivory black showed a velvet-like, deep black 10 783 Mineral black HHHHH ■ colour which was even more beautiful than bone black. In the nineteenth century ivory black was used to patinate newly gilded picture frames applied in a very fine glaze.

Today: Deep, warmer black with light pass to grey-blue, opaque and highly light-fast. Today it is gained from dry 11 700 Neutral black distillation of degreased animal bones. HHHHH 11 702 Black iron oxide / Mars black HHHHH ■

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