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Margret E. Short Fine Arts

Margret E. Short Fine Arts

Portland, Oregon artist Margret Short - a modern day master of 17th Century Dutch art using the chiaroscuro technique to create still life and floral paintings.

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Comparisons

November 19, 2008 by Margret Short

     top left: flake white + vermilion Robert Doak  (tube) top right: cinnabar Monte Amiata Italy Sinopia + flake white (dry pigment with linseed) bottom left: flake white + vermilion Rublev  Natural Pigments (dry pigment with linseed) bottom right: cinnabar Rublev Natural Pigments + flake … [Read more...] about Comparisons

Tagged With: cinnabar, flake white, Monte Amiata Italy, Natural Pigments, Robert Doak, Sinopia, vermilion

Monks Seeing Red

November 19, 2008 by Margret Short

  Very early manuscripts document both the manufacture and use of vermilion. Some called this indispensable color the prince of reds which was more brilliant than the natural cinnabar. Theophilus (Roger of Helmarshausen)the Benedictine Monk, described the alchemical synthesis in his technical handbook De diversis artibus (On Divers Arts … [Read more...] about Monks Seeing Red

Tagged With: Bright Earth, cinnabar, mercury, pigments, sulfur, Theophilus, vermilion

Color Junkie

December 17, 2006 by Margret Short

The past several weeks I have been busy with color making. Pictured here is genuine  Vermilion, a color I could never do without. Because you know my style of painting, you know I favor the warm tones especially reds. This particular pigment has been used since antiquity and is made from natural cinnabar. It has been found in ancient China, … [Read more...] about Color Junkie

Tagged With: artist pigments, China pigments, oil pigments, vermilion

All for Beauty

December 8, 2006 by Margret Short

As I have mentioned in previous posts, many pigments were really nasty and very poisonous. Two yellows, called orpiment and realgar, both made by alchemy, are extremely poisonous and for this reason have gone out of use. Other pigments were poor driers or not permanent and thus lost popularity. So the list narrowed, and it is now published … [Read more...] about All for Beauty

Tagged With: alchemy pigments, Art in the Making, cinnabar, orpiment, pigments from the 17th century, poisonous pigments, realgar, Rembrandt, The Artist, The Artist, vermilion

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