Making The True Primary Blue Watercolor Paint From An Extinct Pigment!

PB33, Manganese Blue! An amazing color, beautifully granulating and so vibrant! A true cyan.
This incredible pigment has been discontinued since the late 80’s and although discovered in 1907, it was only around for a mere 80 years as an artists pigment in paint (a large reserve of this pigment has been used after the 80’s to keep making paint). It’s other use was as a colorant in cement, mainly for swimming pools. It was discontinued because of safety regulations. Manganese pigments are a mild toxic substance, but more so in its dry state. In this case it was mostly the toxic waste that was a result of the production of the pigment.
It’s known as the lost cyan in many artists palettes, you can come close with other pigments, but only as mixes and not fully as chromatic as this PB33. So this exact intense beautiful and bright cyan blue, hasn’t been matched yet by any other pigment to date. An extinct but true primary blue.
Luckily, I found enough of this to make it a regular pigment in my line of paints.
The muller is by Thomas Petit and it's made from 24% lead crystal. It is a custom muller made especially for Dirty Blue. Have a look at thomaspetitgla...
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[@geefull]

PB33 Manganese Blue is lovely, nothing is quite like it although there are hues offered as replacements, we lose pigments all the time so it's wonderfufl to actually get to see the real thing in action. Interesting to watch a glass artst at work too. Thank you both.

[@awatercolourist]

It’s amazing watching two artisans in one video.

[@dirtyblueshop]

😊💪

[@spruceandsquirrel]

That is one very special Muller! I love it so much!

[@berolinastrassmann]

I ❤ Manganese Blue. Its so cool to see you mixing it.

[@dirtyblueshop]

🩵

[@PinkWytchBytch]

Your muller is so lovely!!! This specific pigment has always been one of my favorite blues since I started painting a few years back. It’s just got something special about that vibrancy, it’s like magick

[@dirtyblueshop]

Thank you! And it really is! 🩵

[@olddays-tw9xe]

This is exciting! I love the microscope POV! It took me a moment to realize that's your muller being made on the right-very cool! And it was very nice of him to record the process!

[@dirtyblueshop]

Thank you! It was! I asked him if it was possible to take some pictures, then he send me an entire video! I did the editing of it (it was 27 min with a lot of empty screen because the glass was in the furnace) and I asked his permission to post it.

[@olddays-tw9xe]

Omg I didn't get the notification! Grr. That is so nice of him to film the process for you! Makes everything even more personal and special. And super cool of you to share his work too

[@tart377]

Beautiful paint and muller!

[@dirtyblueshop]

Thank you!

[@s.maskell7134]

My favourite things are well-made tools that are also beautiful! Your muller is amazing.

[@dirtyblueshop]

Thank you!

[@MrPigments]

I really want one of those mullers

[@dirtyblueshop]

Well you know where to get one 😉

[@Twapska]

I hate that it's one of my favorites to use, haha I genuinely think if somebody found a way to produce it on a smaller (artisanal as opposed to industrial) scale, artists would be willing to pay for it!

[@dirtyblueshop]

Well, if not, I have enough of it for a while 😉

[@namisao2409]

wonderful Video :)

[@dirtyblueshop]

Thank you!

[@thePaintedDesk]

Amazing video as always, but would it be possible to release a version without music some point down the line? The sounds of paint mixing are *incredibly* satisfying

[@dirtyblueshop]

Absolutely! 💪🩵

[@dirtyblueshop]

And thank you 🤗

[@dirtyblueshop]

Posted this with a clean edit too now ;)

[@awatercolourist]

First! 👋