1 part stand linseed oil
         1 part Mastic varnish
         1 - 3 parts turp

        Add ingredient together in container and shake well, keep in closed container.

PAINT

All oil paints are exceptable for use in this technique.


REMBRANDT’S PALETTE

Lead White- pure flake white and adulterated with chalk

Chalk- to modify and extend, to add transparency and body with out changing color

Lead-tin Yellows

Vermilion

Earth Pigments- Ochres, Umbers, Siennas.

Lakes- Glazing pigments prepared from natural dyestuff of plant or animal origin.

     Red lakes from the root of Madder plants and from scale insects Kermes, Cochineal 

     and Lac.

     Yellow lakes- as from unripe Buckthorn Berries; known at the time as Pink or Dutch 

     Pink.

Bone Black, Ivory Black

Charcoal

Azurite

Smalt- A potash glass colored by cobalt oxide.

17^TH CENTURY PIGMENTS: basic palette

White-     Lead, lead with chalk (lead carbonate)

Yellows- Massicot (oxide of lead)

                Lead-tin Yellow

                Orpiment (sulphide of arsenic)

                Dutch pink (organic lake from buckthorn)

Red-        Vermillion (mercuric sulphide)

                Madder Lakes (plant source)

                Cochineal Lake (insect)

                Brazilwood Lake

Orange-  Minium (lead)

                Realgar (similar to Orpiment, replaced by cadmiums)

Blues-     Azurite

                Ultramarine

                Smalt (glass)

                Prussian Blue (good glaze color, replaced by phthalocyanine today)

                Indigo

Greens  - Malachite

                Verdigris (copper acetate)

Black-     Ivory, bone, charcoal  

Earth Pigments of all variety

NOTE: Modern tube colors will be used during workshop, modern colors are very good but do tend to be stronger and more intense.