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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Pigment Power in Carrot Colors

Pigment Power in Carrot Colors




WHITE




white rootHealth benefit = None from pigment, but fiber for digestive health
Pigment = No pigment, like wild carrot (Queen Anne's Lace)
Origin = Northern Europe; 1600's

ORANGE
Health benefit=Vitamin A essential for healthy eyes and immune system
Pigment = Beta and alpha carotene
Origin = Europe and Middle East; 1600's

PURPLE OUTSIDE
ORANGE INSIDE

Health benefit = Helps prevent heart disease & strokes, antioxidant ties up harmful free radicals, and vitamin A activity
Pigment = Anthocyanin, beta and alpha carotene
Origin = Afghanistan, Turkey, and Middle East; 900's
RED
Health benefit = Helps prevent cancer (especially prostate), and vitamin A activity
Pigment = Lycopene (another carotenoid) and beta-carotene
Origin = India, China, and Japan; 1700's

YELLOW
Health benefit = Eye health (especially macular degeneration) and cancer prevention
Pigment = Xanthophylls (other carotenoids), especially lutein
Origin = Afghanistan, Turkey, and Middle East; 900's















Art-Pacific: Guide to Artifacts

Art-Pacific: Guide to Artifacts
Pigment for Color...

Face and body paint are part of a complex process of preparation requiring the combined efforts of whole families and clans. Formerly, most pigments came from natural clays in yellow, white and rust colors. Sometimes these are baked in leaf packets to intensify the color. Other sources are vegetable dyes, charcoal and powdered white lime from shells.

[Warrior painting red, white and blue designs on his clansman's face: 40k]

Now tradestores sell packets and bottles of commercial paints which are favored for their ease of use and more brilliant colors. It also shows that the family has the extra money to spend on status goods.

These dreadlock warriors, possibly from the Eastern Highlands, are using a chewed twig paintbrush to apply colors. They have barkcloth shoulder capes, headbands of green beetles and marsupial fur plus individually wrapped fine bundles of parrot and other feathers to make up the headdresses.


[Woman using typewriter white-out to paint designs on her face: 27k]

White clay is sometimes replaced by tradestore and school paints and recently with typewriter white-out fluid. Although it's a bright white and easier to prepare and apply than pigment, the bottle top brush that this woman is using gives a sloppier line than store or twig brushes.

Young girls dance to attract suitable husbands by showing off their families ability to gather and display wealth. Valuable feathers may be given as gifts or in thanks for a favor. Other pieces may be borrowed or in turn loaned out to someone else. Link to Painted Faces 3 for a close-up of a beautifully completed face.


[Woman with marking pen tattoos on her back: 23k]

The coastal people in some parts of New Guinea, especially those involved with the Kula trade, used to do extensive tattoos. The girls and women received specific tattoos at different ceremonial stages of their lives, as well as important tattoos that showed completion of successful trade voyages by their fathers and husbands. Only women from high ranking families would have these complex tattoos.

Only a few older women now have these full body tattoos, although many people still acquire smaller tattoos. Marking pens are used instead for temporary large "tattoos" both for traditional dances and modern events like beauty contests.


[Joan and Carolyn: 22k]

One year my friend Joan, who is from Banz near Hagen, had her family paint our faces in matching red and white clay. It dried to a fine crackle. The next day, Ron paid the Hulis to paint my face in their vivid yellow paint. This had a different base and stayed flexible, but sticky. All day my loose, straight hair kept blowing into the paint. I would have to carefully run my fingers along the edge of my face to unstick it without ruining the design.

Photographs copyright Carolyn Leigh and Scott Lewis Perry, 1998.

Article From: (http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea )


Thursday, March 26, 2009


Joe Miller Signature Natural Pigment Colors

 
Joe Miller Signature Series Natural Pigment Watercolors: 
Since time began, artists have beautified their world and expressed their thoughts by painting. Commonly, all paints have always consisted of a pigment or color ground up and mixed with some sort of liquid. Cavemen dug pigments from the earth – dirt, clay, charcoal, flower petals and vegetable dyes mixed with saliva or animal fat to paint on the walls of caves. Later it was discovered that colors that came from oxides, deposits and minerals of the earth were more permanent and would not fade over time. Throughout the Renaissance, mineral pigments continued to be used by painters. Over the years artists have traveled far and wide in search of rare natural pigments to create beautiful works of art. Today, synthesized pigments are used extensively in the manufacturing of artistic grade paints. Joe Miller Signature Watercolors are a return to the beauty that only natural pigments can provide. 15 ml. tubes.
      

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