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Kremer Pigments has been rediscovering and producing historical pigments since 1977, offering over 1,000 mineral pigments—including rare and traditional colors like Fra Angelico Blue and genuine Sepia—crafted from precious stones and natural materials. With a vast selection of both historical and modern pigments, binders, and additives, their New York City shop serves artists, conservators, and craftspeople seeking unmatched quality and authenticity.
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Make Your Own Oil Paint
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To truly understand how to make the best oil paint, you must first understand the characteristics of each ingredient that is used. Choose from a variety of pigments and oils each with distinctive personalities. There will be options for additives that adjust the properties of your paint: calcium carbonate to add body, cold-wax paste to reduce stringiness, aluminum stearate and tixogel to make paint jelly-like, and sepiolite to prevent oil separation....
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$140
Make Your Own Watercolor: Classic
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Learn how to transform pure pigments and gum arabic into highly-saturated watercolor paints. The ratio of gum arabic to pigment will be emphasized. The “Classic” version offers a selection of 25-30 pigments that vary in characteristics- gritty, fine, opaque, transparent, earth, synthetic, pearlescent, etc. Experiment with custom color-mixing. Participants make a 14-color full pan set! Includes a metal palette that doubles as a carrying case. ...
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$140
Make Your Own Watercolor: Rare Earths, Minerals
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Make Your Own Watercolor: Rare Earths, Minerals and Historic Pigments The “Rare Earths and Minerals” version of Make Your Own Watercolors, offers a selection of Historic and Kremer-Made pigments. This selection includes pigments like: Lapis Lazuli Cote D’Azur Violet Peach Black Bister Gold Ochre from Saxony Red Ochre from Andalusia Watercolor paint preserves the individual traits of these very special pigments. See and feel the...
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$180
Intro to Watercolor Basics
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This class is a shorter version of the Make Your Own Watercolor: "Classics" class. For this Basics version, we've decided to keep costs down by not including the metal travel case/palette in the cost. We'll have the metal palettes available to purchase on the day of the class if you'd like to get one. Learn how to transform pure pigments and gum arabic into highly-saturated watercolor paints. The ratio of binder to pigment will be emphasized....
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$75
Special Crash Course: Intro to Gilding Techniques
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This Crash Course will cover the basics of gilding, gold leaf, and its history. Various techniques of both modern and traditional gilding will be explored, including traditional water gilding, gesso, oil gilding and verre eglomise (reverse glass gilding). Students will each have the opportunity to gild a small piece of work. Bring the following: Pen and paper for notes Apron and dust mask Studio shoes
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$45
Drawing with Silver and Gold: A Special Lecture
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"Drawing with Silver and Gold" Special Lecture, Demo, and Book Signing We're excited to present our first-ever metal point event! We first met Susan Schwalb as a customer when she was shopping for some unique metal brushes for her work. When we attended CAA this February, she introduced us her new book, which had just been published by Routledge. "Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing" (written with Tom Mazzullo) is the first complete...
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$20
Crash Course Part I: Grounds & Pigment Classification
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Crash Course Part 1: Grounds, Gesso, and Pigment Classification Find out why the ground is just as important as the paint you put on top of it. There are many kinds of gesso for all particular applications. We want to show you how to make it yourself! Topics include: How to properly dissolve rabbit skin glue, the function of chalk, tinted grounds, PVA sizing, and customized absorbent grounds. We will also give an overview of pigment...
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$15
Crash Course Part II: Water-based Paints
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Crash Course Part 2: Water-Based Paints: Acrylics, Watercolor and more Open up a world of paint possibilities by learning how to make your own paint. We will cover acrylic paint, but there is much more than that; there are several other water-based binders including: gum arabic watercolor DIY acrylic mediums PVA, cellulose egg tempera Aquazol water-soluble wax Additives for water-based paints will also be introduced: ...
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$15
Crash Course Part III: Oil-Based Paints
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Crash Course Part 3: "Oil-Based Paints, Mediums & Varnishes" This class aims to demystify hand-made oil paint and related recipes. We will troubleshoot common mistakes for beginners. This class is for anyone who has ever asked: Can I make oil paint out of ANY kind of oil? What’s the point of making my own painting mediums if I can just buy one? How do I make oil paint dry as fast as acrylic? Why is Ultramarine...
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$15
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Make Your Own Watercolor: Rare Earths, Minerals
Fantastic opportunity to learn about and work with marvelous colors. I had taken the CLASSIC PROGRAM earlier and that was a bit looser since we were able to create unique combinations of colors by mix two colors. This time, each because of its properties was seen as a solo color. Instructor explained the history/background/process for its creations wonderfully. We ran out of time possibly because several individuals were from specialized backgrounds/careers who knew so many more details so asked more advanced questions which certainly was the correct situation but it slowed down the group. -
Make Your Own Watercolor: Classic
Absolutely fantastic. Anyone with a curiosity of how watercolors are made should definitely consider going. Those who watercolor would, of course, learn a great deal and also walk away with 14 full pans of 14 hand made colors all securely place within a metal palette. Rachael the person we had is so knowledgeable and also low keyed and reassuring so it was a wonderfully relaxed, fun filled time. -
Make Your Own Oil Paint
