Discuss or make inquiries about procedures and techniques for any of the different paint mediums on these links.
| All paints are mixtures of dry pigments from natural minerals, dyed minerals or vegetation dyes and chemical compounds blended with a medium or binder. What establishes the paint used as truly archive quality is greatly dependent on what materials are used and how they are applied. |
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The medium used to carry and/or affix paint pigments to its support is known as a binder. Covered in more detail on each referenced page of my book, many binders through time have been used such as: bees wax for encaustic, distilled water and pigment into lime plaster on frescoes, eggs for tempera, milk glue in casein, linseed oil & resins with oil, gum arabic and/or linseed oil with pastels, gum arabic in watercolor, and acrylic resin polymers in acrylic paint. All such mediums have acquired their own performance values.