Bone char is also used as a black pigment for artist's paint, printmaking, calligraphic and drawing inks as well as other artistic applications because of its deepness of color and excellent tinting strength.
 Bone black and ivory black are artists' pigments which have been in use since historic times--by both old masters like Rembrandt and Velázquez and more modern painters such as Manet and Picasso.
The black dresses and high hats of the gentlemen in Manet's Music in the Tuileries are painted in ivory black.

Ivory black was formerly made by grinding charred ivory in oil.
Nowadays  ivory black is considered a synonym for bone black.
Actual ivory is no longer used because of the expense and because animals that are natural sources of ivory are subject to international control as endangered species.
Bone char is also used as a black pigment for artist's paint, printmaking, calligraphic and drawing inks as well as other artistic applications because of its deepness of color and excellent tinting strength.  Bone black and ivory black are artists' pigments which have been in use since historic times--by both old masters like Rembrandt and Velázquez and more modern painters such as Manet and Picasso. The black dresses and high hats of the gentlemen in Manet's Music in the Tuileries are painted in ivory black.
Ivory black was formerly made by grinding charred ivory in oil. Nowadays  ivory black is considered a synonym for bone black. Actual ivory is no longer used because of the expense and because animals that are natural sources of ivory are subject to international control as endangered species.
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