Clever idea laying down red lead and alazarin for a background.  It was firmly bound when I did the rub test ( Read more... )

1 hr practicing.    I wish my metronome still worked.   Hands ached afterwards, but that was more from the ligaments restretching than bad technique ( Read more... )

More surprise presents from Xav and Marion for the impending podling!  Lots of nifty stuff ( Read more... )

File for FAFSA - maybe the gub'mint will pay to let me go back to school ( Read more... )

Pigment paper has managed to grow three new appendices - (pH discussion and explanation, Raman spectroscopy explanation, Prasinus)

It's now up to 52 55 pages.

I regretfully decided to eliminate the map / Raman key concordance (not just because it was a huge pain in the ass, but because it presented the information anachronistically and confusingly ( Read more... )

( Scribal stuff. )

Happy Christmas everyone ( Read more... )

I heard back from the editor of the CA and she thinks my article submission on medieval pigments and dyes would be ok to publish!!   Woo hoo!   (I was a little worried that it could be considered a duplicate subject, given Mistress Megan's article from 1989, but I emphasized the new technology that has provided new information, and she agreed!)  ( Read more... )

Azurite - mixed with gum arabic in equal proportion to pigment ( Read more... )

The research on the giant pigment spreadsheet of doom is DONE!!

Donity Done done!

24 Spectroscopic Analyses
14 Historical manuscripts / references
   - Missing the Strasburg manuscript, and the Lucca manuscript.

Total logged pigments with some sort of historical justification : 66, 69 counting only one mixed color because of its peculiar prevalence.

Now ( Read more... )