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Our Pigment Suitability Lists:
These lists help you to find the suitable medium for every pigment.

We definitely recommend tests prior to the final application, we cannot guarantee for any instructions given.

How to make Paint

How to make Paint

Our pigments offer an incredibly wide range of colors and brilliance that exceeds the color spectrum of commercially available ranges.
By using different binders and pigments, you can produce different colors yourself.

General Pigment Suitability List

General Pigment Suitability List

This general list of all pigments is valid for Oil, Acrylics, Tempera, Watercolor / Gouache, Lime / Fresco, Cement / Tadelakt, Potassium Silicate.

Acrylic Dispersions

Acrylic Dispersions

In order to facilitate the selection of a suitable dispersion for your purposes, we have briefly summarized the properties of the individual dispersions.
Binders for ...

Binders for ...

... Watercolor
... Tempera
... Acrylic Colors
... Wall Paint
... Oils

Suitability List - Fresco

Suitability List - Fresco

Single List: Pigments for fresco painting, lime wash and gypsum.
Suitability List - Silicate

Suitability List - Silicate

Single List: Pigments suitable for silicate dispersions.
Suitability List - Cement and Tadelakt

Suitability List - Cement and Tadelakt

Single List: Pigments suitable for Cement and Tadelakt.

Pigments suitable for lime often proved not stable enough for Tadelakt.

Suitability List - Ceramics

Suitability List - Ceramics

Single List: Pigments suitable for Ceramics.

If not indicated otherwise, these pigments are stable for temperatures up to 1000 °C.

Suitability List - Epoxy Resins

Suitability List - Epoxy Resins

Single List: Pigments suitable for use with epoxy resins.
Suitability List - Encaustic

Suitability List - Encaustic

Single List: Pigments suitable for encaustic.

For encaustic, pigments are melted into wax or a wax-resin-mixture.

Suitability List - Violin Varnishes and Wood Surfaces

Suitability List - Violin Varnishes and Wood Surfaces

This list has especially been compiled for violin makers. Beside pigments, this list also contains dyes, polishing powders, natural resins, balsams, oils and other products.
Products for Instrument Makers

Products for Instrument Makers

Materials for the surface coating of instruments.
Since ancient times, nature has provided easily accessible materials that can be used to improve and preserve wooden surfaces.

Green Earths

Green Earths

Green Earths are with divalent iron green colored, highly lightfast Iron-(II)-Silicates. Mining is usually very difficult and many deposits are exhausted today. They are often used in landscape painting. The newly discovered Green Opalite from Colorado is particularly suitable for acrylic painting.
Natural Animal Glues

Natural Animal Glues

From skin, nerves, bones and many other animal components of cattle, pigs, rabbits and also fish, one can obtain the usual glues, which are mostly named after their raw material. The harder the glue, the stronger the bond. The more elastic, the lower the adhesive strength.
Pigment particle size

Pigment particle size

Particle size often determines practical properties of a pigment such as processability but also its color shade.

Brochure

Brochure "Kremer Watercolors"

Kremer watercolors are produced following historic recipes and are all handmade in Germany.
Oil as a binding agent

Oil as a binding agent

Oil painting is a technique developed over centuries. Its importance to the art of painting has never diminished, despite modern alternatives. On the contrary, many modern artists appreciate the qualities inherent to this tried & true painting process.
Cadmium pigments

Cadmium pigments

Cadmium pigments are excellently lightfast, opaque and suitable for most artistic techniques. However, toxic fumes are released when cadmium pigments are burned, so the use of these pigments for utilitarian and painting purposes, such as colored wall designs, is prohibited.