Small notes about PIGMENTS

Pigments

Pigment is a colouring substance which can be used in the manufacturing of paint.
It is usually ground into powder and then mixed with water, oil, or another base to produce artist paint and similar products.
 To avoid many of the chemical substances from ready-made pant tubes, many artists choose to create their own paint by mixing pigments with a base substance.
For example oli paint can be made by mixing coloured powder (pigment) with linsead oil.
In order to make acrylic paint you need to mix the pigments with water and acrylic polymer emulsion (which is the binder in acrylics.) As acrylics dry very fast it is important to remember that unlike oil, the available mixing time is very short.
Watercolours and Gouache are pigments mixed with Gum Arabic, which is also used as a watercolour medium to increase drying time and add more transparency.
From: artistterms.com

Baruk Bidayuh Siri 4

Masih dengan baruk...

Baruk adalah merupakan rumah untuk seorang ketua kampung bagi etnik Bidayuh di Sarawak. Bentuknya yang unik dan senibinanya yang menarik perhatian saya utk membuat lakaran demi lakaran. Sekiranya anda melihat di bahagian dalam bangunan ini, nescaya akan ada perasaan kagum dengan sistem binaannya yg agak unik serta penggunaan jenis-jenis kayu yang terdiri drp kebanyakannya dari jenis kayu 'belian' yg merupakan pilihan utama bg binaan struktur kayu di Sarawak. Sekiranya ada masa yg lbh sesuai, sy ingin melakarkan bahagian dlm bangunan sebagai kenangan semasa di sini..
Pencil Color on sketch paper 8" X 10" 2012.

Tasik Kg. Budaya

This is a small lake at the Sarawak Cultural Village. During this plein air session with a friend from KL(Hisham Salmin), light came thru' all over the lake and we are ready to record this moment. Couldn't proceed more than 10 mins. that water droplets were also joining us...so we have to shift our view from where we began.
 Its a knife painting done on location 9" X 11" oil on panel 2011.

Ribut Santubong

Bagaimana jika berlaku ribut di Laut Santubong...ini hanya gambaran pelukis ketika berlaku ribut berkenaan, sebab sudah pasti tiada siapa yg akan berada di sini ketika ini atau pasti akan mencari tempat berlindung...

Oil painting using knife 9" X 11" on panel board 2011.

Baruk Bidayuh III

Baruk Bidayuh III watercolor 4" X 5"
This is a small painting done in January during our en plein air painting group doing our routine painting demo at Kg. Budaya Sarawak.

Pantai Santubong

Watercolor on paper, 8" X 10" 2012.

Location is at the foot of Mount Santubong, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Masih Menanti..

Image seekor monyet di National Park yg bersendirian, jauh dr teman-teman. Kawan sekeliling jarang-jarang bertemu, aktiviti hanya sendiri-sendiri, apa yg ada di luar, tidak diketahui, adakah lg habuan untuknya? Atau inikah takdir kehidupannya...sampai bila...

Watercolor on paper, 9" X 11" 2012...

Pitchers From Santubong

Pitchers From Santubong 9" X 11" watercolor on paper 2012

Studio work, ulangan kpd siri yang lalu yg disiapkan menggunakan oil on panel. Saya cuba-cuba untuk buat menggunakan watercolor setelah lama tidak menggunakan media ini dan hasilnya beginilah...jenis watercolor paper yang digunakan adalah jenis hot press 180gm, ia kurang baik utk watercolor sbb makan warna, sama spt watercolor paper yang 'artist quality' yang dah masuk angin sbb dh lama tak guna..

Kenyalang(Hornbill)

The Resting Hornbill - Acrylic on paper 9" X 11", 2012
This is a studio painting using acrylic paint. Photo of this hornbill from one of many ads. flyers came to our home gave me a shot of interest.

Completed during the 1st day of 2012 using an old watercolor paper(pad) held in my store. A little problems with this paper but could manage to make it better.