Quinacridone Red

Good day team. Now what you see on this plate here, this slab of granite is a oh, it's hard to pronounce. Quana credone red. and it's been mixed into my temper, which is this part here with this my glass muller. So, bit of a process going on here and I'm going to walk you through it. But, but first first we need to use up our red. So, once our red's out, I'll wipe it down and we'll kick off with the next color. pretty fun. So, you can see here it is honestly about as crisp as you can possibly get color to be. It's what.

You get when you make it yourself. Let me jump the other spot here, guys. Bring you right up to the top. Bear with me. Just shift around the joint. There's where I want you. There you go. Now you can see the plate too. There's exactly where you need to be. That's perfect. get my shoe out of the way. We're running a high risk in a white shirt. But at the end of the day, it's actually okay because if we're sensible enough with the paint, we shouldn't need to worry about that. But we'll see. We might not be sensible enough with the paint yet. That's.

The challenges we have. You're a bit close to me. Let me push you back a bit. Here we go. Wonder. So because of the style and how fast the paint actually dries, the compromise you make on potent color is effectively one color at a time, which for me that has zero impact on my style. Borderline completely immune to it because I love going one color at a time. Here we go. So, one thing I'm going to do, guys, there's one extra thing I need. Who do we have here? Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. And you're an artist and a chef, so.

Massive compliment, you legend. All right, I'm coming back. There's one precaution I haven't taken that I should be. the last part of the puzzle. All righty. Let me get this into place. Daddy daddy. Here we go. Snug as a bug in a rug. So, what that device is doing is it's an air purifier and it's checking the air. Not that we want the air to be purified, but we do want to know if there's anything wrong with our process that something might be in it. The air should always be pure. Let me have a little look see here. I've got my glove here. Lovely. Perfecto.

We got everything we need. There we go. I actually I sanded back the panel just a wee bit because I felt like the actual colors were good, but they weren't perfect. Not in exactly the right spots. So, we gave the composition a bit of a refresh in the form of just pulling back some of the colors in how long I've been painting for most of my life. This piece, we've had a interesting road with this piece. But we're going to get it somewhere special. I've had a few stars and it hasn't felt quite right. So, we started again. I think we want to.

Get some white through this. So, here's how we do it. There we go. I should have some white in here. Looks a little dodgy, doesn't it? Motion alive. What's that? 20 something years. I'm 32, so a little bit longer. Sneak in here. This is titanium dioxide. And so we have more fun. How about you join me down closer? There we go. Lovely. Right, you can see our little pile of the titanium dioxide. And now our next thing to do is to grab just a little bit of water here. You can see it's immediately you can see that reaction happening there. It'll.

Start combining itself into that pigment. So slowly slowly slowly slowly they're going to work into each other. And then the last thing I have if you just put literal blah blah pigment with B water. Once the water evaporates, the pigment has nothing to adhere to the surface with. So, this is our binder. And what this is going to do, put it in just a second, is leave something behind with the pigment to stay on the surface with. So, it's temporary. It's going to form a band of proteins and fats. This here, this is a special piece of equipment. Can you see that?

This is a glass m. So, what this does is because it's glass and I can push it onto the granite. Here we go. It's going to allow that those pigment particles to be ground down extra small. That's what we want to happen. I can't get you any closer than that. That's as close as you can get. If you're just joining us here, we are making paint. See there? Want to get it nice and spread out. There we go. That's a good texture right there. And we're doing it right on top of the reds. So, we want that red to bleed through it. want like.

A roséish tone. There we go. This is one step that you don't want to rush as well because you need that those pigment particles to be spread properly or you get the obvious inconsistent color, inconsistent drying results that won't look beautiful or won't last. So, and you know you've got a good flat mer and a flat granite surface when it sticks kind of like a suction cup like that. That's a good sign that everything's as it needs to be. That's a really nice thickness there. Now, arguably though, arguably too thick to get applied by itself. So, what we do from here, like I said.

In here. Voila. This is our binder. Now, the key here, we're not going to get over excited, just a little bit. And what this does, like I said, this allows us to leave something behind with the pigment after the water evaporates that'll allow it to stay on the surface. So much work. Yeah, it is. It's a ton of work, but it's worthwhile because the result you get is color to die for. Beautiful. Now, the cool thing here is these pigments can contain heavy metals which make them quite dangerous. But after they've been mixed in like so, guess what? Those heavy metals are no longer.

at high risk of becoming airborne. So, we're safe enough to actually get our box, lift this up, and put this bottom lid on it. The reason why we put the bottom lid on the box is because that box definitely still have some of the residual powders in it. We can bring you guys back up to here. There we go. So now you see just down here we have our alo white rosé color mixed in with our paint and it's ready to use. So, it's going to be quite buttery, almost the consistency of a a cream. Bring up there so you can see.

It nice and close up. Made our own paint. How fun is that? Thanks, John. look, a lot of artists make their own paint, but I I love this stuff because if you do it this way, the paintings will last the longest and the colors the best. So, we're less in a pursuit to create work for ourselves and more in a pursuit to find the best color we can find. And as far as I can tell, making paint for yourself and mixing it with these strong, powerful pigments, well, that's as good as it gets. Mhm. Little bit of color control, but like we.

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