VALLEJO ACRYLIC STUDIO

ACRYLIC VALLEJO STUDIO The pigments used are both inorganic and organic. Inorganic pigments have been used since antiquity and the vast majority are derived from or extracted from minerals and clays, such as natural earths, siennas, and ochres. Also the pigments titanium, carbon, ultramarine blue, cobalt and cadmium belong to this category. Many of them are currently synthesised in industrial processes. Organic pigments are more modern, developed at the beginning of the 20th century thanks to new synthesis methods in organic chemistry. These synthetic pigments are now a very important group in the manufacture of artists' colours, producing brilliant and luminous shades of extraordinary intensity with excellent stability and permanence. The range of organic pigments is now very extensive and includes azo pigments, blues, greens, phthalocyanines, dioxacins, pyrroles, anthraquinones, quinacridones,