Description
- Pigment: Genuine Sleeping Beauty Turquoise | Series: 5Lightfastness: I – Excellent Transparency: Semi-Transparent Staining: 1-Non-StainingGranulation: Granulating A unique and vibrant blue, the gemstone comes from Sleeping Beauty Mountain in Arizona where we found a deposit that lives up to our high expectations.
- It is lightfast and permanent, with none of the transient color fade that plagues most turquiose.
- Turquoise has a unique porous nature that produces granular washes.
- Juicy washes flow from the brush and drybrush work has the intense texture found only in a mineral pigment.
- Traditional mineral pigments often have a muted feel and our unique Turquoise Genuine has a true brilliance.
- We use the highest grade mineral that is found closest to the earth’s surface, where environmental factors have enhanced the structure to gemstone quality and deepened the tonal richness to a remarkable blue.
- Historic references of Turquoise date back as far as Egypt’s first dynasty.
- Turquoise from the American Southwest has been unearthed in Aztec ruins and Persian turquoise was used as trading currency.