About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Acrylic retarder, Aerosol paint, Alkyd, Aquapasto, Arfe, Automotive paint, Brick tinting, Brush, Buon fresco, Candelilla wax, Canvas, Casein paint, Cedar oil, Claude glass, Cuprinol, Dammar gum, Dibasic ester, Dipper (painting), Distemper (paint), Drawdown card, Drying oil, Easel, Encaustic painting, Filbert paintbrush, Flax, Fugitive pigment, Gesso, Glossmeter, Gloss (paint), Gouache, Household hardware, Ink brush, Japan black, Kolinsky sable-hair brush, Linseed oil, Liquin, Maulstick, Megilp, Methylethyl ketone oxime, Monocouche renders, New materials in 20th-century art, Nitromors, Painterwork, Painting knife, Paint roller, Paint stripper, Palette (painting), Palette knife, Pastiglia, Pinstriping brush, Poppyseed oil, Powder coating, Rabbit-skin glue, Semi-drying oil, Shaped canvas, Spray painting, Spray paint art, Strainer bar, Stretcher bar, Sugar soap, Tack cloth, Thermochromism, Through colour render, Tightening key, Transfer of panel paintings, Tung oil, Turpentine, Vanishing spray, Varnish, Walnut oil, Whitewash, White spirit. Excerpt: A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which a material emits light. Many materials selectively absorb certain wavelengths of light. Materials that humans have chosen and developed for use as pigments usually have special properties that make them ideal for coloring other materials. A pigment must have a high tinting strength relative to the materials it colors. It must be stable in solid form at ambient temperatures. For industrial applications, as well as in the arts, permanence and stability are desirable properties. Pigments that are not permanent are called fugitive. Fugitive...
