Articles written by George Stephen Murray
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Painting Reflections in Water
Although painting reflections in water is considered difficult, three simple principles allow you to paint the shapes, colors and intensity of reflections realistically.
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How to Make Egg Tempera Paints
Egg tempera, one of the oldest, most permanent and strikingly beautiful painting mediums, uses the yolk of an egg as its binder and is surprisingly easy to make.
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How to Paint With Egg Tempera
The technique of water-based painting using egg yolk as a binder has existed since the time of the Middle Ages and still is a valid painting medium for the modern artist.
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Pigments: Historical Cool Hues
Many gorgeous cool pigments such as azurite and verdigris and "royal purple" used in paintings before the mid-1800s are now rarely used due to toxicity or impermanence.
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Pigments: Historical Warm Hues
Many gorgeous warm pigments such as dragonsblood and saffron and "minium" used in paintings before the mid-1800s are now rarely used due to toxicity or impermanence.
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Pigments: the Cool Colors
Artists' pigments such as the phthalocyanines, cobalts and ultramarines that produce cool hues (colors) are listed below and their nature and use is briefly examined.
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Pigments: The Warm Colors
The most obvious quality of a pigment color is hue, and this article looks at warm colored pigments, showing their place on the color spectrum with notes on their use.
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Carpenter Bees or Bumblebees?
Carpenter bees -- also called wood bees -- resemble bumblebees but are not as dangerous to humans even though they can damage wooden structures.
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Values of Pigments in Paints
This second part of an article on the value (lightness or darkness) of pigments covers specific pigments and classes of pigments and their uses and color qualities.
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Pigments: Light and Dark
How the painting medium a pigment is mixed into affects how light or dark the pigment look and can also determine which pigments are best in that medium.
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About Michelangelo's Nose
When the Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo was in his teens, his rival Torrigiano crushed his nose, affecting the great sculptor's life and career.
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Pigments: Three Artists' Whites
Except for a few minor white paint pigments, titanium white, zinc white and lead white are the artist's main tools for painting light in their acrylic and oil paintings.
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Introduction to Artists' Pigments
There are more than 1,000 colored pigments usable for artists' paints, but they can be described, categorized and understood using seven simple pairs of words.
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George Gershwin and Oscar Levant
George Gershwin and Oscar Levant, both young, brilliant composers and pianists, formed a relationship that promoted their popular and classical musical careers.
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Gabriel Faure and Marguerite Long
In the early 1900s, French virtuoso pianist Marguerite Long met the great French composer Gabriel Faure and a lifetime of musical collaboration began.
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