Black in Depth: An Artist's Guide to Black Pigments and Oil Colors - Part 3

[@rossmcleod7983]

Many thanks for your informative vids, love the pace and warmth and appreciate your commitment and insights very much. A boon to the informed painter.

[@RublevColours]

Very welcome

[@WizardVal]

Very nice presentation with no bs attached! Thanks for your paint.

[@RublevColours]

Glad you liked it!

[@NikitaCoulombe]

So helpful, thank you! It really helps to see all of the blacks mixed with both Lead White and Titanium White.

[@rhondaadams4013]

I've learned so much about pigments and paints from these videos. And I've only watched three videos thus far. I love your content!

[@RublevColours]

Thank you!

[@chrisgriffith1573]

I do Black and white paintings, these workshops have been very informational, and valued by myself. I think I might try a few of these new options. Black oxide (PBk 11) looks very attractive to me.

[@RublevColours]

Try it!

[@SnkobArts]

Speaking of blacks, I recently made an oil paint out of your Shungite pigment. Very nice and forgiving mixing black with some nice grittiness and transparency to it. It sparkles subtly too as if it had the leaded glass mixed into it. After seeing Kremer Pigments pricing on their Shungite, I realized Natural Pigments selling it at an absolute steal 😱 I had to get me a jar of it before its demand skyrockets!

[@RublevColours]

We are looking into making Shungite oil paint. Thanks for the coments.

[@SnkobArts]

I think Lamp black is probably better used as an additive or medium than thought of as a paint color. Maybe to slow down the dry time of your cobalts and Mars Violets while lowering the chroma. It seems like it pairs with the Velasquez medium well, being that Chalk is a hyper lean extender where carbon is the most fatty. Definitely recommend the wetting agent for waterborne paint making with this pigment too.

[@RublevColours]

Lamp black absorbs much oil and is an anti-oxidant so it is less useful in oil paint. Chalk has very low oil absorption, and hence is useful in glazing and building to texture or bulking paint.

[@mysterymccarthy6851]

I would love to see a video on chromatic blacks. I have Gamblin's Chromatic Black and find it to be a very dark, very transparent purple more than a black and this limits it's usefulness. I will often make a chromatic black from Ultramarine Blue mixed with Burnt Umber, funnily enough Gamblin's Payne's Grey is this same mixture.

[@RublevColours]

We are working on it.

[@Divertedflight]

I have those same black gloves and I always feel Like I'm cosplaying as part of some black ops group or something when I put them on.

[@mysterymccarthy6851]

Same

[@RublevColours]

They're so cool, right?

[@koffeekage]

Sumi ink is made with lamp soot too.

[@RublevColours]

Yup.