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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have discovered something new about a very old #organism and used it to transform waste from a #chocolate factory into #C-phycocyanin, a valuable blue #pigment
    #Biotechnology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2025/12/btech120125

  6. Portrait of little Dorian, a viewer request from one of my streams. The owner is curious about the #pigment PBk19 and so it's what I used to paint him. With additional goodie of PO49 for the bell.

    Dorian is cute and adorable, it was lots of fun to paint him.

    #art #traditionalart #artist #watercolor #cat #mastoart

  7. New Color Study video went live today, it's about pigment PV23 Dioxazine Violet, which is found in almost every basic set, in school, student grade and professional paints alike. It's a lovely purple, but what's more to it, the properties, how it mixes and how dangerous or not it is for our environment, you can see here:

    youtu.be/gRxNxVQzWR8

    #Art #Artist #WaterColor #colorstudy #pigment #mixes #artistresource #MastoArt

  8. Since it's hardly found as #pigment in nature, the colour #blue is believed to be a rather modern addition to our painting kits.

    Until now: Turns out that apparently already #Paleolithic artists used blue pigment.

    science.org/content/article/pa by @spoke32 via @sciencemagazine

  9. Margaret Beck and Matthew E. Hill Jr. detail their innovative #methods to investigate potential #slipmaterials and compare red #pigment hues. Using graphs, they analyze CIELAB color data to describe and compare hue.

    Learn more about their findings in AAP's latest issue.
    doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.4

  10. Egyptian blue, the lost pigment of the pharaohs
    Researchers recreate history's first artificial pigment, used from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance.

    👉 Discover MORE and SUBSCRIBE to our summary of news and updates through link: amusementlogic.com/general-new

    🔵 #history #art #science #egypt #pigment #Colors #historia #arte #ciencia #egipto #pigmento #histoire #egypte #colores #couleurs

  11. Thortveitite is the main ore of scandium.

    Titanite is prized for its beauty, comes in different colours & is a source of titanium and hence titanium dioxide, used as a white pigment since ~1910. So, it gets my art vote.

    Gets physics vote for trichroism- transparent specimens can show 3 colours depending on viewing angle. #MinCup25 #scicomm #artHist #pigment

    Vote for titanite here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m11

  12. Both wavellite and dioptase are sometimes made into jewelry but (though a rare pigment) dioptase has been on artwork used since Neolithic times so it wins my art vote!

    See for instance Neolithic sculpture from Jordan, some ancients Asian murals & Russian religious icons.
    #MinCup25

    Vote for dioptase here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m10

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #pigment

  13. Sidenote - I really like turquoise. If I had to buy a #paint palette of basic colours, I’d want to add cobalt turquoise which isn’t included in basic sets cos it’s a more expensive #pigment. Like many, I think it’s made synthetically in a lab these days, since the 1800s actually to make it cheaper (artists are also glad for the car and house paint industries or we wouldn’t have paint). There’s a Jackson’s #Art blog post about it, and info somewhere on the handprint website.

  14. Cobalt pigments and toxicity - we hear and read about it a lot. So I went down that rabbit hole and looked into it further while experimenting with the gorgeous PG50 Cobalt Turquoise.

    It's really worth reading to deconstruct some of the mysteries about cobalt pigments.

    patreon.com/posts/color-study-

    #art #pigment #pigmenttoxicity #pg50 #artresource

  15. ✏️ Pigment is a tool for getting color palettes from images

    ©️ Free and open source program

    ⬇️ Install: Flatpak package

    👉 linuxmasterclub.com/pigment/

    #Linux #Review #OpenSource #Software #Pigment

  16. ✏️ Pigment - инструмент для получения палитр цветов из изображений

    ©️ Бесплатная и с открытым исходным кодом программа

    ⬇️ Установка посредством: Flatpak пакета

    👉 linuxmasterclub.ru/pigment/

    #Linux #OpenSource #Программа #Software #Pigment

  17. Spent some monies before tariffs started rolling in and got some phosphors (from the Netherlands).

    Now I am making some new colors- a warm white and a pink. Mundy Hepburn was right- when buying phosphors- just get RGB... oh an maybe violet.

    Gotta mix these on the ball mill for the recommended two days and then do some test coats- I sure am excited!

    realistically I might do a test tomorrow. It will be nice to see how it moves and coats a sample tube.
    It sure is coating the jar well after about 20 minutes. That is a 254nm quartz lamp for the argon mercury.

    The nitrocellulose coatings are so effective! The chemicals are kinda nasty- but they evaporate rapidly and don't make phosphor waste that cannot be put down the drain.

    #color #phosphor #pigment #light #neon #diy #paint #lacquer #nitrocellulose #shortwave #nyc #brooklyn

  18. Martin-Eberhardt et al. reveal a single anthocyanin pigment affects four plant-insect interactions in a carnivorous plant, finding patterns consistent with ecological interactions exerting opposing selection on plant color and thus maintaining variation.
    journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1

    #carnivorousPlant #plant #pigment #variation #color

  19. Drawpile 2.3 is gonna add a Pigment blend mode, based on MyPaint's. It makes the paint mixing more "realistic", e.g. mixing blue and yellow will result in green instead of a dull gray.

    I know there's some people that are very enthusiastic about this stuff. If you are or know someone that is and got a better curve or whatever to use, give a poke somewhere.

    For some reference, these are the curves from MyPaint, the T matrix is to go from spectral to linear RGB and the three other arrays are to go from linear RGB to spectral: github.com/mypaint/mypaint/blo

    MyPaint has some documentation about it and what I think is a curve generation script or something: github.com/mypaint/mypaint/tre

    (To pre-emptively answer some things. I'm not into this stuff, your gradients wont tell me anything, just give me numbers and I can check how it looks when I plug them in. Yes I know of the Krita merge request and spectral.js, they're unusably slow because they do like over 80 calculations instead of 10. Yes I know of Mixbox, it can't be used for anything because it's under a stupid license.)

    #fosstodon #MastoArt #pigment #drawpile #mypaint

  20. After lots of editing issues, the color study of Caput Mortuum and Cobalt blue is online and live.

    Enjoy my lovely granulating loving friends!

    lanagoesart.com/blog/2025/Marc

    Caput Mortuum is such a lovely deep violet brown pigment with heavy granulation, that I had to pair it with the also granulating Cobalt blue for most joy.

    #granulation #pigment #pigmentnerd #art #artist #mastoart #sketchbook #colormixing #colorstudy #WaterColor #watercolour

  21. #Epson #Ecotank #Ink #Pigment #112 #Tusz #zamiennik

    Elo!
    do celów aktywistycznych pilnie poszukuję źródła tuszu (zamiennik) Epson112 na litry.
    Najlepiej w Polsce lub EU.