Erik Lundgren Watercolor

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Category: Colors and pigments

About watercolors and pigments, I describe different watercolors: history, pigments and their painting properties.

Benzimidazolone Carmine 1

Red colors

Benzimidazolone Carmine (PR176)

Benzimidazolone Carmine (PR176) was introduced in 1960. Daniel Smith was the first to use PR176 in a paint they named Carmine. Other manufacturers followed over time. Today there are a handful of brands that…

Diopside Genuine 0

Natural colors / Green colors

Diopside Genuine

Diopside is a semi-precious stone used, among other things, in jewellery. The green variety, chrome diopside, is sometimes referred to as Russian emerald. It often originates from Russia, and its deep green colour can…

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Blue colors

Phthalo blue (red shade)

This is an updated version of the text and images first written on August 5, 2020. It was discovered by accident in the 1920s and produced as a pigment in 1935, under the name…

Potter’s Pink 0

Red colors / Earth

Potter’s Pink

In the late 18th century, an unknown potter invented a colorant that later became known as Potter’s Pink. The pigment is produced by calcining tin oxide together with various other oxides at high temperatures….

Perylene Green 0

Green colors / Black and Gray colors

Perylene green (PBk31)

When I read my old articles about different watercolor paints, I often notice that they are unnecessarily sparse with information that could be both useful and interesting for readers. I therefore plan to rewrite…

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Colors and pigments / Earth

Orange-brown favorites

It may sound strange to describe colours as orange-brown.The reason is to distinguish them from other brownish colours that lean toward yellow or red – those will be treated separately. There are so many…