The Rest of Tempera Paints and Pigments...

So this next blog is related to my last blog that was about tempera paints... today (well actually yesterday but I'm just getting around to blogging about it) I finished up my rough draft for Anne's chemistry class. Like I mentioned before I decided to do two separate papers, one about pigment and one about tempera paints. The pigments proved to be a little bit easier to research on, but not much easier. Here are a list of websites that were more helpful...

http://painting.about.com/od/artglossaryp/g/defpigment.htm

http://www.nycosh.org/workplace_hazards/Chemical/RI_LeadpaintLawsuit.pdfhttp://www.pictureline.com/newsletter/article.php?id=322

http://webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/index.html

The first website is just a definition of pigment to get me started. 

The second one was actually very helpful. For each paper we needed to find a controversy relating to either tempera paint or pigment. This has been the hardest part because it was is very hard to find anything about paint, let alone a fight people are having about it. So this website tells about a lawsuit happening in Rhode Island about pigment. It is about lead poisoning that has been happening to children from their paints. The only question I had was what was what different brands were the ones with lead in them? 

The third one was kind of irrelevant but I thought it was interesting. I didn't use much of the information on it, but it was about pigment vs. dye. 

The last website listed was the most helpful. It was called Pigments through the Ages and it was very helpful with the history aspect of the paper.

All in all writing this paper was very difficult. The first hard part was actually finding useful information. After you found the good websites you had to find what was on the rubric. Then you had to put that all on paper in an informative and entertaining way.