Paints and Mediums
Artists today are fortunate that we are so spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting our paint. We now have such a diverse range of colours and types of paint. This is a far cry from the Greek and Roman artists who struggled with the impermanent colours available to them. Gradually, new colours were discovered giving artists access to bright and permanent colours such as the blue derived from ground Lapis Lazuli stone. One of the downsides to some of these beautiful new colours was their toxicity. Lead, arsenic and other poisonous ingredients have been gradually replaced by far less toxic substances. Jan Van Eyck (1395-1441) was an artist who sought to paint every intricate detail of his subject. This lead him to realise he needed a different technique and a different paint. He went on to invent what we now know as oil paints.
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