Artist Notes: One of the most famous blue stones in art, Lapis Lazuli has been famously used as an ornamental stone, for jewelry, personal adornment, and pigment for over 6000 years. Prohibitively expensive, coveted by royalty, and used in some of the most famous paintings on earth, Lapis Lazuli’s famous blue hue was finally made into the much more affordable Ultramarine Blue pigment so popular among artists today.

Paint Maker’s Notes: Our Lapis Lazuli pigment is ethically sourced from Afghanistan and is a combination of fine and coarse lazurite particles (lazurite being the main component giving the stone its famous celestial blue colouring).

Transparency: Semi-Transparent

Staining: Semi-Staining

Granularity: Granular

Pigment Number: PB 29

Pigment Type: Synthetic Inorganic

Pigment Composition: Sodium sulfide aluminosilicate

Lightfastness: I - Excellent

Toxicity: Non toxic

Of Further Note: Italian Renaissance painter Cennino Cennini wrote in Il libro dell’arte that it was ‘illustrious, beautiful and most perfect, beyond all other colours; one could not say anything about it, or do anything with it, that its quality would not surpass’.