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The Natural Philosopher

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Stuart Noble wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Cal Mac wrote:

Red is iron oxide, as long as you like it muted red.
For colours like broken white and browns one can use a small amount of
clay. With strong bright colours you're looking at synthetic pigments
and will need to buy those.

You used to be able to buy "universal tints" in a tube. Basically earth
colours predispersed in a paste. Uniform dispersion is the difficult bit
if you use the raw pigments.

Hand held kitchen blender. Would cost to use one on oil paints though.

More expensive to buy than a new tin of paint.

NT