Colour stories

Pigments determine the colour of the paint, the lightfastness and the opacity or transparency. All other properties...

White, colour or no colour, the colour of purity, the divine and life itself. But depending on where you are in the...

The history of the wonderful red-orange vermillion has some black undertones. The colour was for a long time extrac...

Ultramarine is a colour that has appealed to one’s imagination since the early Middle Ages. These days it is imposs...

Renowned masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Rubens already often used, in ‘lacquered form’, Stil de grain yello...

Organic pigments are composed of carbon compounds. Before they were synthetically produced they were usually of ani...