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woodsprite

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1. Thanks for posting!

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Fri Nov 21, 2014, 10:56 AM

Nov 2014

I've bookmarked it for my daughter. She's an art conservation major and has been working with grinding and extracting pigments from lapis lazuli, malachite, etc., wax paintings, and working with lead white in her studio classes. Her one professor was trying to help her recreate the red of the giraffe's bridle in "Sala di Lorenzo il Magnifico" by Vasari. She came close, but not quite. Looked great when it went on, but as it dried, it turned more of a burgundy color.

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