Mineral Colour Powders - Animal Glue - Mortar/Pestle
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Chinese painters using quality watercolour paint for their scroll paintings,
have the option of using CHIPS (pre-mixed with animal glue)
– or GROUND MINERAL POWDERS (and adding ANIMAL
GLUE from the bottle).
Both of these methods provide excellent traditional results
and as the colours are mostly mineral stone – the results last without
fading.
With painting chips the range of colours is different, as they have other
shades not available from mineral sources.
Mixing of Animal Glue & Powder.
Mineral powders in general are manufactured into different shades of say blue
(azurite) with each shade having a slightly different grain size. By grinding
these before use, you standardize the powders grain size.
On opening a pack of coloured mineral powder pour it into a mortar & pestle, and grind it to fine powder – restoring it to the pack for later use.
To prepare powders for painting they need a binding glue, so that the powders adhere to the paper after drying. Using a painting brush and a little glue, mix some powder into it. The strength of glue can be thicker than you would use for painting as you add water to gain the correct watercolour paint for your painting. i.e add more water for a thin wash & less for normal colours, etc.
Powders can be mixed ready for use and left to dry. Then reconstituted later by adding a little water, then it is ready for use. An ideal way of pre-mixing is to use a chinese stacking palette (5 palettes that stack on each other) and allowing the glue paint to dry, and storing the colour in this form, ready for later painting use.
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THE GENERAL EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED THEN, IS LISTED HERE;
Small sized mortar &
pestles with white ceramic parts are available at the shop as follows:
6cm diameter pot with pestle
8cm diameter pot with pestle
Stacking palettes come in 2x sizes:
Small ceramic (blue flower)
Large ceramic (blue dragon)
Animal Glue:
Mineral colours & Chips
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