Natural Pigments spreading vibrant colors without any toxic effects

Imagine the world without colors. Everything would have looked pale, dull and lifeless, with only black and white and the shades of grey.Clothes, photographs, paintings, wallpapers and interiors have seemed boring and lifeless. The introduction of colors and pigments has infused liveliness within them. Natural Pigments have their own charm and chemical free texture that fits well to every artist’s needs.

There are colorants, dyes, pigments, inks and colours for artists and handicraft painters made of natural pigments and coloring agents. They are somewhat expensive at the outlets, but in case you get the chance to buy from the manufacturing plants.

The processing of these natural pigments for artists is a sight to see. There are various SHGs that organise teams to cultivate color pigment yielding plants, flowers and other organic resources that produce color. Various flowers are basically utilized to produce natural color pigments. Adding a bit of artificial base with these color pigments, they can be easily utilised to paint apparently any kind of surface. Canvas, fabric, ceramic, glass, wood, paper and various other mediums of painting that artists use to create their art pieces are having their compatible natural pigment based colors.

Mostly different kinds of flowers, leaves, vegetable dyes are used to make these natural color pigments. For example red colored hibiscus flower is dried and crushed to form red color natural pigments, whereas marigold of yellow and orange color create the same colored pigments. Green leaves are used to make green organic paint base and white color is obtained from various white materials obtained from natural sources that can render a white base.

These color pigments that nature offers us are non-toxic, can easily blend with the medium of painting and offer vibrant colors. The only drawback is they need to be stored properly and used within the stipulated time frame to offer the best and most vibrant hues to a painting.