Stone Pigment

About Stone Pigments

Stone pigment colour is a such as a real colour which is take out (raw material) from quarry with out any mixing artificial chemical colour. Then the material of pigments are purely produce by grinding and refinding the naturally colourful stone in powder form, manually. Such colourful stones are collect from precious stone mines in remote part of country Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afganistan and Tibet. The pigments are also called historical pigment, mineral pigment, traditional pigment or stone pigment. The pigments are not use only in paintings. It means these special stones are also use as medicine in Aaurvedic treatment. It has a different pleasure while painting with such natural pigment. The art paintings painted with such colour have various distinct and peculiar quality in it. If properly cared, such painting does not get fake even after millenniums (thousands of year). The other peculiar quality of paintings with such natural pigments is some of them they have superfine natural twinkles in it which last as long as the colour. It may be noted that there is no mixing of any artificial twinklesin these colours. Such natural twinkles can be seen very well in direct sunlight/focus light on the paintings and further more clearly with the help of magnifying lens. Weight of the stone pigments are different depending on their quality. Some colours like red and creamish white weight become very heavy like precious metals while weight of yellow and green colour is light than red, white and other.