Saga Series Bundle for Pigments by Vicious Antelope on sale for $15 USD

240 expressive presets including a wide palette of evolving pads, cinematic textures, atmospheric layers, and expressive synth keys.

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Tom Wolfe releases Evanescent ambient soundset for Pigments

A collection of 50 atmospheric ambient presets, Evanescent is the most unashamedly ambient set Tom Wolfe has created for Pigments to date.

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I report too much on pharmaceutical manufacturing quality, but come across stuff like this ... very rarely.

Yeah, iron oxide pigments have been synthesized by the absolute sh*t-tonnalades for hundreds of years! I think they are so f*cking cool, including the whole history, from mining to synthesis.

Used for at least 25,000–30,000 years in prehistoric cave paintings, yellow ochre is one of the most dramatic yellows for interior painting — the most, IMHO.

Yellow iron oxides, which appear almost brown in the raw, when mixed with white are converted into a brilliant and radiant warm yellow, unlike other non-toxic yellow interior pigments — like benzimidazolone, diarylide, or Hansa yellows — which are colder, sometimes even greenish dyes.

In previous lives, I had home improvement businesses for some 20-30 years, and used no other yellow.

In fact, I used no other orange, no other red, no other brown, and no other black pigments than those derived from iron oxide, coined by industry as Mars pigments.

Iron oxide covers the entire spectrum of warm colors from yellow, through orange and red, to brown and black. These pigments are actual microscopic particles of the Earth.

I have a mythical belief that the Sun's light and the Earth's magnetism interact with these pigments, and reflect light like no others — electron spin, polarization, IDK. It's just different.

Unfortunately, the only blue pigment approved for interior painting in the US was thalo blue. I'm not sure what's going on with non-toxic interior blues, nowadays.

Thalo blue is not a particularly pleasant blue, to me. It looks like plastic feels — unlike manganese, cobalt, or French ultramarine blues, for example. Though not FDA-approved for lip products, French ultramarine blue is generally considered non-toxic.

https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/iron-oxide-pigments/

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Watercolor folks, not sure if you've heard but we're losing PO 48. We lost PO 49 a few years ago, and so Quinacridone Gold was reformulated to PO 48 and PY 150.

Well, PO 48 was discontinued in 2023 I think, but companies had so much of it that I didn't even notice. That's starting to change. A few companies like QOR have already retired some colors, and it's getting harder to find paints with PO 48.

Daniel Smith says they have enough for another 15 years or so. That sounds great but I'm noticing the price of Quin Gold is slowly going up. If you have any extra art funds to get a little backup stash going, might be something to think about.

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