Pigment - Pigments By Chemical Composition

Pigments By Chemical Composition

Metallic and carbon

  • Cadmium pigments: cadmium yellow, cadmium red, cadmium green, cadmium orange
  • Carbon pigments: carbon black (including vine blac, lamp black), ivory black (bone char)
  • Chromium pigments: chrome yellow and chrome green
  • Cobalt pigments: cobalt violet, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, aureolin (cobalt yellow)
  • Copper pigments: Azurite, Han purple, Han blue, Egyptian blue, Malachite, Paris green, Phthalocyanine Blue BN, Phthalocyanine Green G, verdigris, viridian
  • Iron oxide pigments: sanguine, caput mortuum, oxide red, red ochre, Venetian red, Prussian blue
  • Clay earth pigments (iron oxides): yellow ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna, raw umber, burnt umber.
  • Lead pigments: lead white, cremnitz white, Naples yellow, red lead
  • Mercury pigments: vermilion
  • Titanium pigments: titanium yellow, titanium beige, titanium white, titanium black
  • Ultramarine pigments: ultramarine, ultramarine green shade
  • Zinc pigments: zinc white, zinc ferrite

Biological and organic

  • Biological origins: alizarin (synthesized), alizarin crimson (synthesized), gamboge, cochineal red, rose madder, indigo, Indian yellow, Tyrian purple
  • Non biological organic: quinacridone, magenta, phthalo green, phthalo blue, pigment red 170

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