Life Style / Painting / Tragacanth: A binding agent made from Astragalus plants, used in watercolour paints and pastels.
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Lifestyle / Painting / Gums: The principal binder for water-colour is gum arabic, it comes from certain acacia trees growing in Africa, Asia and Australia. Gum tragacanth is used as a binder for chalks and pastels; it is procured MORE
Lifestyle / Painting / Pastels: A method of painting or drawing with sticks of dry colour which have the minimum of binder; a reason why pastel pictures keep their bright fresh look almost indefinitely. The main danger for them is c MORE
Lifestyle / Painting / Gouache: In a broad sense it is a water-colour carried out with opaque or body colours instead of just transparent. The earliest signs of the method are traced back to the Egyptians, when they bound their pigm MORE