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Figure 2.8: Natural pigments of antiquity. Top row: yellow <strong>and</strong> red<br />

earth pigments; center row: vermili<strong>on</strong>, two shades of umber, <strong>and</strong> azurite;<br />

bottom row: two shades of green earth, malachite <strong>and</strong> lapis lazuli.<br />

Adapted from [Weh75].<br />

a pigment rises to <strong>and</strong> projects from the surface of a dried paint film <strong>and</strong> thus can<br />

be powdered off. Agglomerati<strong>on</strong> is when pigments coagulate into lumps <strong>and</strong> resist<br />

dispersi<strong>on</strong> in the binder.<br />

Painters usually visualize a paint color in terms of its masst<strong>on</strong>e–the color ap-<br />

pearance of a high c<strong>on</strong>centrati<strong>on</strong> of <strong>on</strong>ly <strong>on</strong>e pigment completely hiding the surface<br />

below. Hence, a pigment should be pure, without added inert ingredients that ad-<br />

versely affect its color or h<strong>and</strong>ling. A tint is the color appearance of any mixture<br />

of a pigment <strong>and</strong> a white pigment. This tends to lighten the color, make it less<br />

saturated, <strong>and</strong> some<strong>time</strong>s shift the result to a slightly different hue.<br />

The c<strong>on</strong>centrati<strong>on</strong> of pigment to binding medium also has an effect <strong>on</strong> the<br />

resulting color. Higher c<strong>on</strong>centrati<strong>on</strong>s of pigment to binder produce deeper, richer<br />

hues. However, there is a limit of how much a given <strong>media</strong> can be saturated<br />

with pigment; at some point it rejects absorbing more pigment <strong>and</strong> the soluti<strong>on</strong>’s<br />

fluidity is adversely affected. This characteristic is also pigment dependent, as<br />

each material has a different absorpti<strong>on</strong> rate. This is some<strong>time</strong>s referred to as the<br />

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