An interdisciplinary look at color, art, cognition and the things that make us human.
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Color naming is not about “seeing” color, it is about “making” it
How do you know what is "yellow"? And how do you know that wheat, honey, and sunflowers are all shades of the same color?
I wrote this essay for my DPhil application to the University of Oxford in 2024 (I got an offer but not a scholarship...
Pigments under the skin: ancient and indigenous tattooing among men
Louis Le Breton: Native of Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia). Atlas Pittoresque, plate 58 (1846).
After covering traditional tattoos among women in a previous post, in the second part of my posts about pigments and ancient ta...
Pigment Tuesday: ultramarine blue
I've started a new series called 'Pigment Tuesday'. In each post, we'll discover a new pigment, its history and applications in art. We're starting with the king of blues: lapis lazuli.
I’ve written countless stories about pigments over th...
Pigment Guide #7: oil paint
This week, we turn to one of the most popular art techniques of the last 500 years: oil painting.
A little reminder that the Pigment Guide is a series of posts where I teach you how to make paint from earths and soils (plus other recipes a...
Pigments under the skin: ancient and traditional tattooing among women
Spanish depiction of the tattoos (patik) of the Visayan Pintados ("the painted ones") of the Philippines in the Boxer Codex (c. 1590), one of the earliest depictions of native Austronesian tattoos by European explorers.
I was recently atte...
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