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Important announcement ❗️ 11/07/2024

Due to the fact that chlorite rocks (chlorite, tobacco chlorite, dark green chlorite) and Kurskaya brown arrived to us from the Kursk magnetic anomaly, at the moment there are difficulties in the receipt of new raw materials, and we decided to remove them from the assortment.

But there is good news, other minerals and rocks have been selected to replace them based on similar shades and properties.

We will replace chlorite with Gabbro (the same black granites), an intrusive rock of the main composition.

Tobacco chlorite is similar to chromite, which is already in our catalog. Chromite additionally has small green tones.

We select a shade of dark green chlorite.

At the moment, we have not found a replacement for Kurskaya brown.

There are still some left in production for dark green and tobacco chlorite, as well as Kursk brown, we inform you about this in advance, most likely these pigments will be available before the new year.

11/06/2024

Dear friends!

The pigments and oils from the new products are already available on the site:

Lemon nickel titanate, Sea wave chrome cobalt, Cerussite, Chromite, Red jasper, Gray-green porphyrite, Siderite, Refined clarified sunflower oil, Refined clarified safflower oil, Refined compacted safflower oil.

We expect several more new products soon. And also Viridian, Van Dyck, Pinkish cobalt, Cobalt zinc aluminate in the works.

08.2024

Our company has been producing natural and synthetic mineral pigments since 1997. Until 2004, it was called PBOUL A. V. Grigoriev, and in January 2005 it was transformed into OOO Natural Pigments, Moscow. Our brand was "Natural Pigments" until 2024. In mid-2024, our company decided to rebrand, since the name and logo did not reflect the products we manufactured. In connection with this, we changed the name to "Mineral Pigments" and created a new logo in memory of our founder Grigoriev A. V.

Over the past years, we have managed to achieve stable product quality indicators and significantly expand the range of art materials we produce. The company's special feature is the full production cycle of natural and synthetic mineral pigments, including the search for raw materials, their processing (drying, crushing, washing, various types of separation, leaching, firing), final grinding and packaging. The fineness of grinding for different types of pigments varies from 1 µm to 100 µm. Ochers and colored earths are usually finely ground, and minerals with a crystalline structure (lapis lazuli, azurite, cinnabar, malachite) are often produced with a coarser grinding, which allows the artist to regulate the degree of grinding of the pigment, since the shade of the paint layer of crystalline pigments directly depends on the size of the mineral grains. For example, finely ground cinnabar has a warm tonality, and its coarser fraction acquires a cold raspberry tone. To meet the needs of consumers of our products, we are ready to fulfill individual orders for grinding pigments to the required size. To solve such problems, the production base of Natural Pigments LLC has all the necessary equipment and competent specialists.

A separate area of ​​our production is the synthesis of pigments, which we call historical. These are compounds obtained artificially long before the time when synthetic pigments almost replaced pigments of natural origin. At the same time, such materials were successfully used in painting along with natural pigments, and the test of time has shown their complete viability. We are talking about such pigments: cerulean, manganese blue, cobalt violet, Naples yellow, Egyptian blue, cobalt blue and green. We have restored the ancient recipes and technologies for the production of these materials and, unlike other pigment manufacturers, we have the right to give them the appropriate names without the shameful addition in small print "imitation". Our pigments fully correspond to the composition and structure of similar pigments produced many centuries ago.

Our pigments are perfectly compatible with any type of binder and are used in various painting techniques. They are especially suitable for all types of tempera, are widely used in oil painting and watercolor, mineral pigments are traditional in fresco and have proven themselves in painting on a silicate binder and in combination with acrylic. Mineral pigments are indispensable in restoration work on works by ancient masters who did not know the achievements of modern chemistry. Undoubtedly, modern chemical pigments are of great importance in the production of art materials, but natural pigments have one undeniable advantage - these pigments have been tested by thousands of years of human history, and works of ancient eras still retain their original appearance due to the unfading and richness of colors created by nature itself.