We perceive an object or a surface as black when it absorbs every colour in the visible light spectrum, and little to no light is reflected. Black pigments made from charcoal or charred bones were ...

Oil and acrylic paintings these days are most often created on canvas. Canvas replaced wood panels for painting during the Renaissance because stretching canvas across wooden bars allowed for larger ...

There are a few reasons that you might want to start your painting on a dark ground. Some pigments are naturally transparent and some are opaque. Oil and acrylic paints will indicate the opacity on ...

Jackson’s introduced Yupo Paper a couple of months ago to our range of papers for watercolour and mixed media. After reading the description of the paper, that it is non-porous, waterproof and ...

Whilst we understand that Carbon offsetting is not as ideal as avoiding fossil fuel use in the first place, we do believe that it is a step in the right direction. As a result, we have decided to ...

A Posca Pen allows you to control the application of rich, opaque water-based paint, in fine or broad lines, making it perfect for painting and drawing! The markers contain real paint that dries ...

Of all the artist colours, black may well have the longest history. Charcoal, soot, and charred animal bones were used in the earliest prehistoric cave paintings. Today, there are a number of black ...

Acrylic paint as we know it today has only been around for about 60 years. Unlike oil paint which has been used by artists since about 1400, acrylic paint is a more recent invention. At the beginning ...

Graphite is a soft, crystalline form of carbon found in the earth’s crust. It is thought to be one of the oldest minerals on earth, and pottery decorated with graphite dates back to the Neolithic age.

Traditional gouache is often divided into two categories- Artist and Designer gouache. But what do these mean in practice and what do they mean for painters? The simple answer seems to be that one ...

Artist pigments are ever-changing, with new pigments being discovered and old ones falling out of use, but despite this many black pigments have changed relatively little. The earliest black pigments ...

Jackson’s Kite Brushes are made with environmentally friendly synthetic kolinsky hair, which is derived from sustainable materials. Here, I tried them for the first time, comparing them with natural ...