Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

By examining pigment traces on pottery recovered from a well at Chichén ... Arnold noticed white residue inside the bowls, likely left behind by wet-ground clay. Small cracks caused by grinding tools ...

Maya blue is a highly unusual pigment because it is a mix of organic indigo and an inorganic clay mineral called palygorskite. The rich blue color does not fade over time; it has maintained its ...

This instinct drives the exhibition, where treated wood, ceramics, dry pastels, and hand-ground pigments come together in textured surfaces, calligraphic marks, and sculptural forms that feel both ...

In ancient times, you needed specific minerals like malachite or azurite to create the blue pigment. Egyptians would heat a mixture of sand, ground limestone, and one of these minerals at high ...

The History Of Egyptian Blue, The World’s Oldest Synthetic Dye Widely considered to be the world’s first synthetic pigment, Egyptian Blue traces its origins back more than 5,000 years, to roughly 3250 ...

I let it dry and then ground it up finely ... That left me with one question: If Carver wanted to make blue pigment available to everyone, to make themselves, how was an ordinary person back ...