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Bistre Ink
is made by boiling or soaking wood soot in water to extract the soluble tars; this liquid is then filtered and results in a transparent and luminous ink, the exact tone of which depends on the kind of wood used.
Bistre:-A brown, transparent pigment. Return to top
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Binary Colors - Colors made by the mixing of two hues. Examples are orange, green, and purple. Return to top ...
Bistre: Brown pigment made from soot used as a brown wash for drawings and watercolours especially in the 16thC and 17thC.
Art Glossary: Bistre
An explanation of what 'bistre' is, and how it is made.
Art Glossary: Blending
An explanation of what the painting term 'blending' means.
Bistre
An unreliable brown pigment made by burning Beech wood. Now obsolete.
Black
See Carbon Black (below).
Bole
A form of natural red iron oxide. The closest modern pigment to Bole would be light red in colour. Now obsolete.
Also see acrylic paints, autographic ink, bistre, black, body color, Chinese art, gouache, heighten, iron-gall ink, Japanese art, nib, oil paint, pen, quill pen, reed pen, sepia ink, wash, watercolor, and zinc white.
Sepia. A brown pigment prepared from the inky secretion of the cuttle-fish and used in watercolour and ink, often in monochrome. It was not much used until the 19th с and should not be confused with *bistre.
 See also: Painting, Impression, Composition, Acrylic, Roman
  
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