{"id":5850,"date":"2020-05-14T04:56:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T04:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/chromaonline\/atelieracrylic\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2021-12-02T21:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:35:42","slug":"lightfastness-in-artists-paints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/lightfastness-in-artists-paints\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightfastness in Artists\u2019 Paints"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The lightfastness or permanence of a pigment is its resistance to change on exposure to light. This depends on the chemical nature of the pigment, its concentration, and the medium in which it is employed \u2014 oil, watercolor, acrylic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Permanence is especially important in painting, because the length of time a pigment retains its original color value determines the life expectancy of the work of art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pigment must be lightfast. Pigments must also be chemically and physically stable and must not break down or change in any way as they age. So you can see that it is important to know your pigments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note how the color has faded on the right side of the card<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As an aid to artists, our comprehensive Oil and Acrylic Color Charts list not only the color name, but also individual pigment lightfastness rating, transparency and opacity details for every color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is now a worldwide standard for permanence. The independent ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials standard) was established and ratings from this organization represent the most standardized classification in use for artists\u2019 materials. ASTM classification monitors quality, permanence and health guidelines. These pigment ratings were established in 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help you identify paints that are lightfast, look for the official ASTM rating information on individual paint tube labels. You will also find full ASTM information on each brand’s Color Chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lightfastness ratings are:
ASTM I \u2014 Excellent Lightfastness
ASTM II \u2014 Very Good Lightfastness
ASTM III \u2014 Not Sufficiently Lightfast to be used in artists\u2019 paints<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE: The ASTM ratings were done many years ago by Henry Levison (the inventor of Liquitex) during his retirement and very little updating has been done since. As a consequence we have some colors without ASTM ratings, but which do have British Standard Blue Wool Scale Lightfast (BSL) ratings. We therefore also give the BSL ratings, which have been used to evaluate a larger number of pigments, and which give more specific information noting pigments at full strength, mid tint (with white added) and pale tint, (more white added).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BSL rating for pigment lightfastness goes from 8 which is absolutely lightfast to lower numbers which are progressively less so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also shows that any color in mass tone is more lightfast than when tinted with white: 1\/3 ISD (International Standard Depth) is about \u00bd to 1\/3 strength and the lowest is 1\/25 ISD which is a very pale tint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information is more accurate than the ASTM ratings, because the pale tints at 1\/25 ISD level were never tested by ASTM and it is in the palest tints that unreliable colors fade most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our stringent controls mean you can have total confidence in the permanence of every pigment used in all of our professional artist\u2019 paints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on ASTM ratings please click here.<\/a>
For more information on BSL ratings please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The lightfastness or permanence of a pigment is its resistance to change on exposure to light. This depends on the chemical nature of the pigment, its concentration, and the medium in which it is employed \u2014 oil, watercolour, acrylic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,42,47,46,43,44,45],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Brushes_1.jpg?fit=1020%2C565&ssl=1",1020,565,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"All","slug":"all","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":15,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":15,"category_description":"","cat_name":"All","category_nicename":"all","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":48,"name":"a2","slug":"a2","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":42,"name":"archival oils","slug":"archival-oils","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":47,"name":"atelier a2","slug":"atelier-a2","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":46,"name":"atelier ink","slug":"atelier-ink","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":43,"name":"atelier interactive","slug":"atelier-interactive","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":43,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":44,"name":"free flow","slug":"free-flow","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":45,"name":"jo sonja","slug":"jo-sonja","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":45,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"All"}],"post_tag":[{"value":48,"label":"a2"},{"value":42,"label":"archival oils"},{"value":47,"label":"atelier a2"},{"value":46,"label":"atelier ink"},{"value":43,"label":"atelier interactive"},{"value":44,"label":"free flow"},{"value":45,"label":"jo sonja"}]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Brushes_1.jpg?fit=1020%2C565&ssl=1","authorName":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chromaonline.com\/atelieracrylic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}