Williamsburg does not add materials that would keep the oil from separating from the pigment like that. There's nothing wrong with the paint unless the paint is unusable. You can actually take the trouble to take your pallette knife and mix the stuff back together. Interference pigments can make some incredible effects when mixed with transparent colors. It is worth while working with if you want different effects in your paintings. They are exceptionally useful and beautiful in abstracts. I hate to be snarky like this, but there's a lot of information available out there. And the titanium dioxide in the formulation is an extremely thin film of titanium dioxide on the mica itself. Mixing interference colors with titanium white is kind of totally useless. You can get much better effects mixing it with white with either a transparent white in oils, or you will you get a much better effect mixing those kinds of colors with white in acrylics. Opaque pigments are less dense in acrylics because of the cementitious properties of the acrylic medium, as opposed to the pellicular properties of oils. Once you experiment more you can find some absolutely amazing effects can be made with interference colors.
(new york city noises) my neighbors have been blasting music at 5am, on SUNDAYS EVEN, aaa and yeah, I like that it's AVAILABLE, it's just... Unsure how to use
I bought a Winsor a Newton version of this (don't even know if they still make it) and found it pretty pointless for standard representational painting.
It says mica? I'd bet its powdered mylar plastic. Pearls in the auto paint world. Special effects from light bouncing off, would work nice for wall decor paintings. Or say on a tree, yellow, orange or green pearl could add a nice flash of color for highlighted areas? Actual makeup for portraits?..a whole blue sky with the added reflecting blue may look good? But I'd bet opaque paints would really smother the reflectivity. Experiments to get the effect your going for. Too much may not look good. Kind of a black velvet elvis feeling.
@@BryanJRiolo-q5h the mylar's more reflective. Archival? How long it lasts before dulling out? Mica will stay the same for ages at least. Pays to read those labels.
@@Broody58 The pearls in the automotive world are usually mica. The opaque micro pearls might be mylar with a metallic skin. I am quite sure there is some kind of metal involved, because those kinds of powders are usually very very dark unless in a very bright light. The interference pearls are definitely mica. I bought a bunch of them a few years ago and I know even the super shift interference style pearls are mica. Some of the larger flake automotive chameleon shift pigments are extremely thin metal, probably aluminum. Of the large flake pearls that are transparent those are probably mylar. They definitely do not seem to be any kind of mica. The larger flake automotive pearls seem to be of about gold leaf thinness. If you sneezed while opening up either a jar or a bag of them you would distribute them around your room. All over your room.
@@BryanJRiolo-q5h i know mylar after a while fogs up. But fine reflective mica can be used as a base for glazing say a portrait. If done right, I think the effect would be striking. Even a landscape.
Williamsburg does not add materials that would keep the oil from separating from the pigment like that. There's nothing wrong with the paint unless the paint is unusable. You can actually take the trouble to take your pallette knife and mix the stuff back together.
Interference pigments can make some incredible effects when mixed with transparent colors. It is worth while working with if you want different effects in your paintings.
They are exceptionally useful and beautiful in abstracts.
I hate to be snarky like this, but there's a lot of information available out there. And the titanium dioxide in the formulation is an extremely thin film of titanium dioxide on the mica itself. Mixing interference colors with titanium white is kind of totally useless. You can get much better effects mixing it with white with either a transparent white in oils, or you will you get a much better effect mixing those kinds of colors with white in acrylics. Opaque pigments are less dense in acrylics because of the cementitious properties of the acrylic medium, as opposed to the pellicular properties of oils.
Once you experiment more you can find some absolutely amazing effects can be made with interference colors.
I'm tempted to try a thin glaze over a tonal landscape. I have the feeling that >>new york city noises
(new york city noises) my neighbors have been blasting music at 5am, on SUNDAYS EVEN, aaa
and yeah, I like that it's AVAILABLE, it's just... Unsure how to use
I bought a Winsor a Newton version of this (don't even know if they still make it) and found it pretty pointless for standard representational painting.
It is best in abstracts and surrealism but you still can get some very interesting effects in realistic painting with these kinds of colors.
It says mica? I'd bet its powdered mylar plastic. Pearls in the auto paint world. Special effects from light bouncing off, would work nice for wall decor paintings. Or say on a tree, yellow, orange or green pearl could add a nice flash of color for highlighted areas? Actual makeup for portraits?..a whole blue sky with the added reflecting blue may look good? But I'd bet opaque paints would really smother the reflectivity. Experiments to get the effect your going for. Too much may not look good. Kind of a black velvet elvis feeling.
It is not mylar.
It is mica.
@@BryanJRiolo-q5h the mylar's more reflective. Archival? How long it lasts before dulling out? Mica will stay the same for ages at least. Pays to read those labels.
@@Broody58 The pearls in the automotive world are usually mica. The opaque micro pearls might be mylar with a metallic skin. I am quite sure there is some kind of metal involved, because those kinds of powders are usually very very dark unless in a very bright light. The interference pearls are definitely mica. I bought a bunch of them a few years ago and I know even the super shift interference style pearls are mica. Some of the larger flake automotive chameleon shift pigments are extremely thin metal, probably aluminum. Of the large flake pearls that are transparent those are probably mylar. They definitely do not seem to be any kind of mica. The larger flake automotive pearls seem to be of about gold leaf thinness. If you sneezed while opening up either a jar or a bag of them you would distribute them around your room.
All over your room.
@@BryanJRiolo-q5h i know mylar after a while fogs up. But fine reflective mica can be used as a base for glazing say a portrait. If done right, I think the effect would be striking. Even a landscape.