
Product details
- Size
- 120 ml
- Blick SKU
- 00643-2013
About this product range
- Bold, versatile acrylics for artists at any level
- 102 modern and traditional colors
- High-grade pigments and 100% acrylic emulsion
- Balanced body retains subtle texture
- Excellent lightfastness and long-term durability
Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylics combine brilliant color, great handling, and exceptional flexibility for artists at any stage, from students and hobbyists to seasoned pros. Available in 102 colors, including both modern and traditional pigments, you’ll find a wide range of opacities—perfect for layering, glazing, and precise color control.
These medium-viscosity paints offer an easy, consistent flow straight from the tube. Their smooth, full bodied texture holds expressive brushwork and subtle textures beautifully. Use them on their own or extend their versatility with your favorite acrylic mediums. Known for excellent lightfastness and durability, these paints are built to perform across all painting styles and techniques, from fine art to murals, illustration, and mixed media.
Proudly made in the Netherlands.
Pigment information
General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.
Lamp Black
- Pigment code
- PBk7
- Type
- inorganic
- Chemical name
- carbon
- Chemical formula
- C
- Properties
- Lamp black is a very opaque, heavily staining black pigment that does not have much covering or tinting power. It is typically the most opaque black in watercolor form. Though a very pure black, it tends to muddy slightly in mixtures. Natural sources may be brownish or bluish in tone because of impurities. When used in oil paints, it is one of the slowest drying pigments, and should not be used in underpainting or applied in layers underneath other colors.
- Permanence
- Lamp Black is very lightfast and absolutely permanent. It is used in all techniques in permanent painting.
- Toxicity
- Carbon itself is not considered hazardous, however other combustion products that are hazardous are often present as impurities when Lamp Black is produced from natural materials. For this reason, commercial preparations of the pigment should be considered slightly toxic. Avoid skin contact and inhalation. Where such impurities are present, Lamp Black is a possible human carcinogen.
- History
- Lamp Black is a carbon based black traditionally produced by collecting soot (known as lampblack) from oil lamps. It has been used as a pigment since prehistoric times. It is the black found in Egyptian murals and tomb decorations and was the most popular black for fresco painting until the development of Mars Black.
- Description
- Carbon Black, Channel Black, Furnace Black, Oil Black, Vegetable Black. Flame Black is an impure version of Lamp Black. An alternate spelling is Lampblack, in which the first syllable is stressed and the two words are elided to form a closed compound.
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