Used in Ivory Black, it is most likely purchased from a dye & pigmentĪs Ivory Black from any paint company will contained this pigment, you may Sources for raw materials including pigments. Liquitex manufactures paint, mediums, varnishes and additives. It was originally made from charred elephant ivory, which is how it got the The pigment – Ivory Black – is a traditional artist color along with Carbon No animal bones are used in the processing of artists acrylic paint. Here is the email response from Liquitex: So, what is up with the charred bones? Anyone know? And the thought of slaughter house bone use is gross too. I know that they probably get all the bones they want from slaughter houses and that there probably is no abuses going on but wherever there is money to be made and humans are involved there is abuse somewhere. So, are all paints based on charred animal bones? Why do some brands list that and some do not? Are there brands I can stay away from? I thought all paints today were basicly chemical, artificial and only those persons with a lot of time on their hands would grind their own rocks and junk for pigment. “Pigment: Amorphous Carbon Produced by Charring Animal Bones (PBk 9).”Ī year or so ago I’d gotten a different brand, don’t recall brand now, that said basicly the same thing and it was Pthalo Blue so I got another brand that just said PB15 or whatever. Now I read the label on my Ivory Black Liquitex tube and it says: I do not want to be a part of cruelty to other life forms. I am trying to live a quiet, cruelty free, blameless-and quite boring actually-, life.
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