MATERIALS

This is a very interesting new website about miniature painting materials: https://www.persianmanuscriptmaterials.org/

Starting a thread about handmade paints, as I know there is a lot of interest in these! Handmade paints from Bristle Brush Paints @bristlebrushpaints @islamicillumination What a treat… they look like dessert! Each paint individually wrapped and such a pleasure to open. Particularly looking for

The handmade manmade. Storage of the synths. Will update this to reflect the actual colours in the video.

I get asked this a lot so easier to put here. Does anyone have a list of natural pigment sellers that they regularly buy from? Eg from Etsy - some people mentioned that they buy pigments from Etsy. It would be good to share if possible! For the UK (but they may ship internationally) and later if yo

Does anyone have suggestions on where to buy miniature painting materials in the U.S.? Wasli paper? Paints? the angled detailing brushes? materials for burnishing?

I have a question about using hot press versus cold press paper. It seems to me that you would want cold press paper, because when you are staining and starching the paper, it will absorb more. Once the paper is saturated with the starch and burnished, the surface of the paper would become smooth. O

So I finally bit the bullet and invested in some giant sheets of 640 gsm hot pressed Fabriano paper. Now, I'm wondering how to cut them. They're thick as cardstock, and my usual box cutters aren't working very well for a clean cut all the way through. How to cut these sheets of paper? I am think

Hilarie Cornwell told me about pergamenata, a cellulose-based parchment substitute. I love it...tough like real animal skin parchment, but not greasy. It comes very smooth and I usually rub it with a gum eraser before drawing. It does like to curl up once painted, though. I once finished a piece la

@Nadia Bouhdili just reminded me that I meant to post about this here. Vaishali told us about Kuretake in class, and I found this set had some excellent gold watercolors (6 shades of gold!) at a very reasonable price at Amazon US. Great way to practice gold work before springing for shell gold:

... and the storage thereof!