Oh, Kelly! You are costing me some money here! I saw the first part of your video and went down the rabbit hole of exploring these amazing paints. I had sworn off buying new ones, but I have a birthday in a couple of weeks and a set of these rocketed to the top of my list. (Rut-ro! :D ) I have watched lots of videos seeing them, and learning about them and I have a 'list' of colors that I think I can't do without. :) Thank you (?) for introducing us to them. I am sure you will do amazing things with them!

@kellyhoernig

Жыл бұрын

Sheila, they are really lovely colors and I need to paint with them to get the full feel of coverage and mixing potential. I will still be collecting, in fact left the next two pages blank just to fill them in later with new colors. Enjoy them and let me know if there is any must have colors you want to share.

@SheilaLandry

Жыл бұрын

​@@kellyhoernig I watched Dr. Oto Kano swatch them out and learned a lot about them (besides from watching you!) She is so knowledgeable about colors and I really trust her not to be biased and give true opinions. Most of their colors are single pigments, which (as you may have figured out) really perks my interest. The overall assessments of them have been really positive and the colors looks amazing. I have been drooling ever since I saw your first video on them. I love the Earthy tones and I see many possibilities for the type of artwork I do using them. I will certainly keep you posted. My birthday is in a few weeks and I am going to see if Keith asks what I would like. I have a 'list' of colors I would love to try, and need to try to pare it down a bit or decide which of the sets would fit. Sometimes getting the sets is a better price. Sometimes not if I won't use some of the colors as much. I still have to research. But I am working on the class from you in the meantime and swatching cards, too. I will keep you posted. :)

I think some of the Roman Szmal pans feel a little weird when you first open them - like there is a film on the top that you have to get through before you find the true nature of the paint. Aquarius brown is really fun and does some crazy granulating. Thanks for the swatch session.

@kellyhoernig

Жыл бұрын

I did notice that some were shinier than others but it didn't seem to stop them from being swatched. I loved the aquarius brown because of the granulating. Need to paint some art to see how they mingle with each other. Thanks for watching!

Call me a pigment nerd, but I'm more than that. BTW Sennelier has a nice version. Anyway, here is what my best go to pigment encyclopedia says about, CAPUT CAPUT MORTUUM Red-Purple Synonym, variant or common name Traditionally caput mortuum is associated with a synthetic reddish purple or violet pigment derived from iron(III) oxide. Harley (1982) and sources therein consider the material to be formed as a by-product of sulphuric acid manufacture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This was probably an early form of the copperas process used for the manufacture of Venetian red and copperas red (qq.v.). The synthetic origin of the pigment is also upheld by Church (1901); Weber (1923) also lists it among synthetic red iron oxide pigments. More recent applications of the term (Bikiaris et al., 1999; Daniila et al., 2002; Oliveira et al., 2002) appear to refer to naturally occurring and heat treated hematite-rich pigments producing a ‘violet’ colour used in Roman, Byzantine and postByzantine art. Here, and perhaps due to the Latin name, caput mortuum is directly related to the purple pigments documented by the Roman authors Pliny (77 AD) and Vitruvius (first century BC), although the name was never used by either and in fact is unknown from other classical sources. However, it has been used synonymously with Pliny’s and Vitruvius’ usta and ostrum although the link between these materials is, at best, tenuous. The pigments of these names described by Vitruvius refer specifically to Tyrian purple and Pliny’s usta refers to burnt cerussa (red lead; qq.v.). In a recent paper, Oliveira et al. (2002) have Raman spectroscopy to characterise various modern purple iron oxide pigments called caput mortuum, supplied by Kremer. They note that variation in colour in these samples is related to particle size; the darker hues have the largest particle size. However, they consider ‘real’ caput mortuum to be that used in Roman contexts. In this case (Rushton Roman villa, UK) the pigment is identified as hematite mixed with calcium carbonate and kaolinite (qq.v.), and again is unrelated to wet chemically precipitated compounds. Caput mortuum is broadly synonymous with terms applied to the synthetic red iron oxides including Venetian red, Spanish brown and colcothar (qq.v.). Caput mortuum violet and caput mortuum vitrioli are also used. Caput mortuum is Latin for ‘death’s head’. The phrase, in this context, is not of Roman origin and was originally used by early seventeenth century alchemists to refer to the ‘worthless’ residue left after experiments; it ‘is the last element of all bodies which can be no farther altered by any art whatsoever’ (Sullivan, 1794). Iron(III) oxide would certainly exist in such contexts, due to its extreme stability. According to Harley (1982) the name first appeared in the eighteenth century referring to a pigment. In view of the alchemical derivation of this term and the fact that it did not appear in the classical literature, the name is best used to refer to synthetic, wet-chemically manufactured forms of iron(III) oxide pigments. The authors do not recommend the use of caput mortuum applied to pre-seventeenth century synthetic iron(III) oxide pigments and it is an anachronous term when applied to Roman contexts.

@kellyhoernig

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all, it's much appreciated!

caput mortum is my favorite of this group, but they are all lovely. What drew you to this brand of paints? I’m trying to rationalize buying some. 😂

@kellyhoernig

Жыл бұрын

Caput Mortuum in Winsor & Newton is pretty special too. I will be doing a comparison on them just to see what gorgeousness they have in store for us. I really saw them on other channels and loved the colors being shown and wanted to experiment with them myself. No other reason than that.

About ordering the colors - RSz had some limited edition colors that have no number :)

@kellyhoernig

5 ай бұрын

I have seen that and their limited edition colors are so lovely. Thank you for sharing!