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  1. Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!

    The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.

    Vote for orpiment here: mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #scicomm #pigment #arthistory #printmaking #minerals

  2. Here ya go, Everyone! Anyone can vote. Once a day. Just click this link. For each day links will be shared online in Mastodon, Bluesky and a not-to-be-said-aloud other social media.

    Not registration needed. Just click on that button there! And then click on the second of the 2?options and of course, for magnificent mineral orpiment. Sure cuprite is pretty in a different way BUT orpiment has more centuries and thousands of years of history!

    mineralcup.org/2026/vote-resul

    #MinCup #MinCup26 #MineralCup #Mineral #Vote #Orpiment #Radioactive #Yellow #Orange #Pigment #Crystals

  3. Ta-da! A perfect distraction for this cobalt lady! #MinCup #MinCup26 #MineralCup #Mineral #Vote #Orpiment #Radioactive #Yellow #Orange #Pigment #Crystals Link in first comment and see all the boosts I just shared! My orpiment here

  4. @majnouna Best wishes with this project! I remember you wrote earlier about the Umda manuscripts, Omar the Forger, and testing his recipe for an inexpensive indigo pigment which could substitute for lapis:

    majnouna.substack.com/p/false-

    #indigo #lazurite #manuscript #pigment #ArtHistory

  5. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦋✨ #Butterfly wing #color comes from #pterin crystals that bend and scatter #light rather than absorb it, keeping colors vivid without fading.

    Chemists developed a faster method to grow these #crystals without toxic solvents, producing small amounts of eco-friendly, non-toxic #pigment. The work points toward glitter made from #DNA-related compounds as a planet-friendlier alternative.

    👉 popsci.com/science/dolly-parto

    #butterflies #biomimicry #chemistry #sustainability #science #nature #innovation #northeastern #environment #dollyparton #ecofriendly #materials

  6. This is so beautifully done:

    > One #color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its #chemistry, and the people who paid for it in #poison.

    > Every #pigment in this #catalogue has a paper trail. Where it was first ground, in whose workshop, on whose #canvas it dried, when it was banned, what replaced it. We do not invent provenance and we do not edit out the unflattering parts.

    storiedcolors.com/

    #colors

  7. An indigo-based pigment... from an overlooked recipe in a 13th century Arabic text. Fascinating experiments & scholarship from Joumana - & highlighting the digitised manuscript treasures in our libraries!
    majnouna.substack.com/p/false-

    #indigo #LapisLazuli #lazurite #dye #pigment #ArtHistory #manuscript #libraries #sustainability #JoumanaMedlej

  8. Soudain I, Max Ernst, 1962

    I love all the texture and the strange density, I think reality has a density that you can always stop to appreciate no matter where you are. The layout of this has a couple of large-scale shapes but there's so much more there because of the texture, like every molecule of yellow and blue and orange etc. is interacting separately with your eyes 🤣

    #art #abstract #maxErnst #texture #bright #colorful #cheery #alive #density #matter #antimatter #grain #pigment #process

  9. The March installment of Polylith arrives as the last drifts of snow melt. We consider a new sculpture, and a process that loops without ever repeating.

    cscottmills.com/polylith/080/

    #towardThePolylith #pigment #birch #sculpture

  10. A Beneficial Role For Orange Pigments In Birds And People

    "A pigment that colors feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells."

    #SciComm by @GrrlScientist

    #pigment #physiology #Cancer #colors #evolution grrlscientist.medium.com/a-ben

  11. A Beneficial Role For Orange Pigments In Birds And People

    "A pigment that colors feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells."

    #SciComm by @grrlscientist

    #pigment #physiology #Cancer #colors #evolution grrlscientist.medium.com/a-ben

  12. « Ombre bleue »
    Pigment sur toile
    80x80 cms.
    .
    #ombre #shadow #bleu #blue #pigment art artcontemporain contemporyart artiste atelier galerie bretagne finisterre brest @gaellethuayre @gaellethuayre_atelier

  13. Im Stadtmuseum Mühlheim (Offenbach am Main) ist derzeit "Europas ältester Farbtopf" zu sehen - mit neuen Einblicken in die prähistorischen Ursprünge von #Kunst und Kreativität hat eine Studie von Forscherinnen und Forschern der @AarhusUni und #RGK_DAI die früheste bekannte Verwendung von #blau​em #Pigment in Europa identifiziert:

    dainst.org/newsroom/noslug/722

  14. « Ombre bleue »
    Pigment sur toile
    20X20 cms.
    .
    #ombre #shadow #bleu #blue #pigment @gaellethuayre @gaellethuayre_atelier

  15. « Ombre bleue »
    Pigment sur toile
    30x60 cms.
    .
    #ombre #shadow #bleu #blue #pigment art artcontemporain contemporyart artiste atelier galerie bretagne finisterre brest