What is a pigment?

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Pigments are essentially coloured powder, and they are use to be mix with binders and water to make paint. Some of the types that can be coloured are acrylics, chalks, coloured pencils, oils, and others. These are the things that you would mix with the powder. When you mix all of this, you would get paint. Some paints are faster to dry than others. For example, Naples Yellow is one of the colors that are made out of pigments that dry fast. It all depends on what type of paint do you want to do, but the pigment substance would always stay the same. You need to make sure that you do every single step that they tell you or else your mixture would come out bad. Also when you have a pigment, you ALWAYS need to have it finely produce because if it isn’t, then it would ruin the whole thing.