How Furniture Restorers and French Polishers use Natural Earth Pigments

In this video, furniture restorer and french polisher Simon Gilboy talks about the pigment colours that are used in french polishing and furniture restoration. Natural earth pigment powders and spirit colours are used to disguise a bad repair, bad inlay or non-removable mark.

Simon describes the brush he uses when colouring, how to charge it and work a colour on the palate. He also demonstrates how to build up and blend basic wood colours like walnut, teak, mahogany and rosewood.

Natural Earth Colours: Yellow Ochre, Raw and Burnt Umber, Titanium White, Red Lead, Lemon Chrome, Burnt Sienna, Orange Chrome

Spirit Colours: Oak, Black, Red

Our follow-on video 'Disguising Repairs to Antique Oak Furniture by colouring with Natural Earth Pigments' shows how these pigments are used in practice:    • How To Use Natural Earth Pigments To ...  

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