[Scriptoris] science and art

[Hillary Greenslade]

-- nweders at mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> Thanks for the link Darius.
> 
> Daniel Smith and his wonderful company, has, over the past several years, 
> put out a series of pure pigment watercolors which I find fascinating and 
> of interest. They are aquareous watercolor rather than gouache or body 
> color but I think it's interesting.  Over the last couple of months, I have 
> slowly been gathering pure pigment powder from Sinopia for attempting some 
> egg tempera.
> 
> I found another article on line that  talks about the glass beads used in 
> oil painting as a technique for adding color and light to a painting.  the 
> article you sent talks about it to a degree but that was a surprise to me.
> 
> Thanks for sharing!
> Clare
> 
> 
That article was very interesting on the glass mixed into the paint, as it refracted the light. 
On the scribes list I believe it was noted that the author found the glass only on wall paintings
and I believe frescos, but not in manuscript painting in books.  
Cheers, Hillary