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In Liquid Color’s “Color Spotlight Series”ĭr Oto Kano’s “Colossal Color Showdown” (and literally everything else she does) ALWAYS look at the pigment number when doing research, not the marketing name (the name they put on the tube). The way Brands name their colors can be misleading. See Exhibit A.Įvery brand has it’s own version of each color, so even if they use the same pigment, it could look and act very differently. Every single pigment has a number to designate what it’s made with. You can give paint away, or sell it, or store it for an apocalypse)įor this to even be possible, there are a few basics that need to be explained.Įvery single tube of paint contains at least one pigment. All paints that I removed from my palette are stored and saved to be used for future teaching workshops.

I want to share my process for learning about my pigments, how I make my decisions, and what the final results are! Hopefully this will help someone who is also on this journey. I choose to make my painting process more earth friendly, because I care, and it’s really not that difficult.Īs I began this journey, the more I research my paints, the more overwhelmed I got. If these elements end up leaching into crops, wells, and oceans, it moves up the food chain and comes back to bite us (and our animal friends!) Every single choice we make at home accumulates across humanity and impacts the world. Depending on where you live and which drain you use, that water may not be treated before it’s released into the environment. So every time you wash your brushes and palette in the sink, or dump out your used paint water, that enters our water system. I’m so excited to be writing this post, because this is something I’ve been thinking about doing for over a year! I’m not sure why, but last week it suddenly hit me that IT’S TIME! What do you mean, Earth Friendly?Ī lot of pigments contain heavy metals such as cobalt, cadmium, aluminum, and nickel.