Colour Alchimia / Free Booklet

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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