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Over the years, learning oil painting as long as when you need to use some kind of pigment to the store to buy products on the line, it is only right and proper thing almost. However we referred to in the previous chapter have been artists of the classical period is within one's own pigment preparation workshops in the itself. This is subject to the then level of productivity, and because of it, instead of creating a parallel tracks--ancient artists according to their different personalities different materials and chemical formula to produce a set of selected controls the level of drying speed and thin paint to suit your style needs.
Classical portrait oil painting artists performance of homemade pigment and pigment properties of modern factory production is not exactly the same. First when the pigment is only a pigment powder and walnut oil (linseed oil) into distribution, no other additives, it is basically a liquid state, thus there is no shaping forces, this is because the classical paintings are basically transparent drawing, for this drawing of paint must be more transparent and flat brush in order to meet the needs of that assigning a color similar with the class.
Classical oil painting with mostly a selection of texture made from fine pigment powder filling. These pigments and powder color gorgeous, calm, noble, elegant, a lot of whom are mineral pigments. Because of its after millions of years of natural evolution, their performance is very stable, with an hundred of incomparable charm.
EV, in his lectures introduced the era of classical china oil painting reproductions  artists how to make these pigments. In China in recent years a considerable number of artists he described in the classical painting techniques, so that their own painting style and had a very large changes in the face of Chinese oil painting, it can be said that EV er lecture for the development of Chinese oil painting was instrumental.
Homemade oil paints will try to select those excellent color performance and texture powder materials, verify that toner is an excellent approach is very simple and easy to grasp:
Color powder a little drop in the water, if description fine particles floating in the water, after toner blending and coated in two on small pieces of paper, a piece in the indoor, place another piece of Sun, with more than 10 employees future phase comparison, fine texture and does not change or does not change much performance stable, quality is good.
Color powder and oils after blending paint on paper, while on the other is a coating of oil on a piece of paper, such as color
Faster than oil is then is good paint: dry is the pigment with oil but are
Poor-quality pigments.
WER also in his lecture, describes how to deploy and grinding of pigments:
Pigment grinding plates, dig a small hole in the Middle will be generated after 1 2 walnut oil and cooked oil edged down after blending together in human pigment powder, after mixing with the mill like Surusumi thin grinding, grinding when pigments must not be hasty, to 1.1 points to feed. This work requires a lot of patience, sometimes pigments appear to wear well, worried if you finger pick on a little with a slight touch, he'll probably find there feels like sand, suggesting that Kung Fu is not enough.
Ancient artists grinding pigment is placed in various soil container in the pottery class, now we have more convenient and easy to store tools and materials.




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