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Ancient Earth Pigments on Streamline Live!

AEP tutorial at Streamline with Eric Rhodes

Today Linda was interviewed live by Eric Rhoads of Streamline Publishing, and did a quick demonstration of making watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera paints for an international online audience! Check out the replay of the live stream below.

Ancient Earth Pigments will be a sponsor of the Watercolor Live on-line conference, January 27-30. Sign up at a discounted rate before January 10th. VIP attendees will receive a gift bag of AEP products (while supplies last)!

Also check out our previous videos on Making Davy’s Grey (mixing pigment powders to match a target), and Making Egg Tempera!

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Give Thanks this Black (Mirror) Friday

Black Mirror
Italian Glass Black Mirror – unique and makes an excellent gift for the artist in your life!

Thanks for supporting Ancient Earth Pigments!

We have an offer for you, and we’d like to give back to our community with your help.

Choose one of the following three coupon codes to receive a 10% discount on your next order of over $50.

And, we will make a donation of 5% of your order cost to the local charity you select with the coupon.

GIVERELIEF: We will donate 5% of your order cost to Direct Relief (directrelief.org), a Santa Barbara-based organization that provides medical and rescue supplies all over the world in response to natural disasters.

GIVEFOOD: We will donate 5% of your order cost to Foodbank of Santa Barbara County (foodbanksbc.org), whose annual efforts are most intense at Thanksgiving.

GIVEART: We will donate 5% of your order cost to the Santa Barbara Art Association Student Art fund (studentartfund.org). The SAF provides art supplies to local school art programs according to the needs articulated by the teachers. The SAF also sponsors the very popular Grandparent Portrait Show, highlighting the achievements of local art students in all kinds of media.

To use one of these coupons, enter the code you choose during checkout.

Discount applies to your entire order, including sale items, on orders over $50. Expires end of day, 1 December 2020 (Pacific Time).
Cannot be combined with other offers.
One coupon per customer. Thank you!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ancient Earth Pigments

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Seeing Reds

Hi Ancient Earth Pigment Fans!

As you know by now, we’re a small company with a big heart.

I worried that our Scarlet Red (PAR 11) is a bit pricey, but affordable reds are hard to find.

I think our watercolorists and oil painters would like Alizarin Crimson for their florals and skin tones. So we got samples in and I swatch-tested them against our existing Scarlet Red (PAR 11).

We’re looking for your preference among these “test” reds. Send us an email to let us know which ones you like.

Please vote for 2 –

   Scarlet II

   Alizarin Crimson

   De Medici Red

We’ll order the winning pigments to have them in stock before the Holidays, and, before Watercolor Live.  We are a Silver Sponsor!  Another Blog post will give lots of details if you didn’t get to enjoy Plein Air Live or Realism Live. If you haven’t signed up, please use this link.

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Mixing Davy’s Grey – A Video Demonstration

You can use our products for many different applications. In this demonstration Linda shows how to mix pigment powders to match existing paints. Davy’s Grey in pastel is no longer available from the manufacturer. However, using our pigments, you can match the color and make your own pastel, egg tempera, gouache, watercolor, or oil paints.