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/// COLOUR ALCHIMIA ///
STUDIO Laura Daza photography Laura Daza
photographY: LAURA DAZA
CONTENT
1. COLOUR ALCHIMIA 2. THEORY -COLOUR
-HISTORY -ALCHEMY -SCIENCE OF COLOR
3. COLOUR EXTRACTION (practical exercises) -RED OCHRE -WHITESHELL -YELLOW SAFFRON -BLUE AZURITE
4. COLOUR APPLICATION (materials and supports)
COLOUR ALCHIMIA
What?
- communicate and inform how colours are made and where they come from - celebrate ancient rituals - reconnect with matter - honour the purity of colour
How?
- revive colours, its history and processess - experimentation and remanufacture traditional colours - deconstruct colour - understand material properties - playful approach
Why?
- these colours are being lost - we are moving away from traditional materials and methods
COLOUR
COLOUR IS MATTER
photography KKGAS
photography TREND TABLET
HISTORICAL REVIEW
HISTORY
What is alchemy? - is the transformation of natural raw materials into colour through different processes. -Is a mix of basic sciences, craft and tecnology.
photographyWIKIPEDIA
photography WIKIPEDIA: mine-worker carrying a lapislazuli stone in afghanistan
TIMELINE PREHISTORY carbon black bone black umber red ochre yellow ochre chalk madder carmine saffron malachite whiteshell egyptian blue indigo azurite red lead vermillion verdigris tyrian purple ultramarine lead tin yellow smalt indian yellow mummy brown naples yellow van dyke brown prussian blue cobalt green cobalt blue chrome orange emerald green chrome yellow cadmium yellow lemon yellow zinc white viridian cobalt yellow cobalt purple cerulean blue cadmium red
ANTIQUITY
MEDIEVAL AGE
RENAISSANCE
INDUSTRIALISATION PRESENT DAY
HISTORY
Painting technique
Support
-Murals -Body
-Walls: fresco or mural -Sarcophagos -Paper: books and parchment
Prehistoric Painting
-Watercolour and egg tempera
PREHISTORY
ANTIQUITY
-Wood panels -Manuscripts -Mosaics -Stained glass -Frescos
-Egg tempera
MEDIEVAL AGE
-Canvas -Walls: al fresco or mural art
Oil Paint
RENASSAINCE
AD
COLOUR PALETTE
90,000
DC 4,000
0
500
1,400 - 1,600
photography LAURA DAZA
photography Laura Daza STUDIO LAURA DAZA’S NATURAL MATERIAL PALETTE
HISTORY PREHISTORY / RED OCHRE ETYMOLOGY: ocra rossa ORIGIN: mineral NAME: iron oxide COLOUR RANGE: red, orange, yellow
photographY: LAURA DAZA
photographyWIKIPEDIA
photography WIKIPEDIA: CAVES IN LAUSCAUX, FRANCE WITH PREHISTORIC PAINT
HISTORY ANTIQUITY / AZURITE BLUE ETYMOLOGY: azure ORIGIN: mineral NAME: copper carbonate COLOUR RANGE: sky blue - dark
photographY: LAURA DAZA
photographyWIKIPEDIA
HISTORY ANTIQUITY / WHITESHELL ETYMOLOGY: ovum ORIGIN: animal NAME: calciu, carbonate COLOUR RANGE: white-beige
photographY: LAURA DAZA
photography WIKIPEDIA
photographyÑWIKIPEDIA: EGYPTIAN CLAY VESSELS CONTAINING NATURAL PIGMENTS
HISTORY MEDIEVAL AGE / SAFFRON YELLOW ETYMOLOGY: safranum ORIGIN: plant NAME: crocus sativus COLOUR RANGE: yellow - orange
photographY: LAURA DAZA
photographyWIKIPEDIA
photography WIKIPEDIA: SAFFRON COLOUR USED IN MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
WHAT GIVES COLOUR?
SCIENCE OF COLOUR Colourants: A physical material that imparts colour
PIGMENT
insoluble particles (suspension)
= DYE
soluble particles (solution)
Pigments and dyes behave differently.
SCIENCE OF COLOUR
PIGMENTS ORGANIC
INORGANIC
derive from living matter
PLANT -Saffron -Indigo -Rubia - Weld
do not derive from living matter
ANIMAL
EARTHS
-Cochinilla -Tyrian Purple -Mummy Brown -Bonewhite
-Ochres -Clays -Gypsum
MINERALS -Azurite -Lapislazuli -Cinnabar -Orpiment -Malachite -Verdigris
EXTRACTION & PROCESSESS
SCIENCE OF COLOUR
METHODS of EXTRACTION GRIND UP
CORROSION
CALCINATION
SCIENCE OF COLOUR
PIGMENT (solid) + BINDER / VEHICLE (liquid) = COLOUR
(paint, glaze, dyes)
SCIENCE OF COLOUR
NATURAL BINDERS GUM ARABIC
Watercolour
-Diluted in water -Transparent and shinny finishing -Layer over layer -Fast drying
EGG YOLK
Egg Tempera
-Diluted in water -Thin and matt finishing - Layer over layer -Fast drying
BEESWAX
LINSEED OIL
Encaustic
Oil Paint
-Diluted in water -Coating effect -Dense and creamy finishing -Fast drying
-Diluted in oil -Thick, dense and hard finishing -Layer over layer - Slow drying
COLOUR PALETTE
PALETTE RED
OCHRE
BLUE
WHITE
YELLOW
AZURITE
EGG SHELL
SAFFRON
COLOUR APPLICATION
photographY MARIE BLIONI: colour alchimia workshop in paris
I invite you to join our Colour Alchimia workshops. Get your hands-on with me to discover, experiment and create new colours from scratch by transforming raw materials, from the animal, plant, and mineral world into the magic of coloured pigments. Unusual materials and ingredients such as eggshells, copper sheets, earths, semi precious stones, resins, gums, egg yolks and glaires, honey, salts will be used. This useful workshop will teach you how to make colours DIY at home. Learn its history, origin, methods and recipes. You will learn various methods and techniques when making hand ground pigments, how to make natural paint and the application of these onto various surfaces. Colour Alchimia will take you through a fascinating journey into the past to make you re-appreciate colour today and in the near future.
photographY LAURA DAZA colour alchimia workshop in BARCELONA
GET IN TOUCH!
studiolauradaza@gmail.com