For centuries, artists relied on lapis lazuli to produce ultramarine blue, a pigment prized for its intense color and rarity.

Making ultramarine blue from lapis lazuli is one of the most challenging pigment experiments an artist can attempt. In this ...

Back at the beginning of December, I read an article about how Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams had revived the process George Washington Carver used to produce a blue pigment using ...

The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers. The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to ...