Notice catalographique « The lightfastness of Winsor & Newton and Dr. Ph. Martin's inks on paper »
- Titre
- The lightfastness of Winsor & Newton and Dr. Ph. Martin's inks on paper
- Auteur ou éditeur
- Blais, Sandrine
- Queen's University (Kingston, ON)
- Lieu de publication
- Kingston, ON
- Maison d'édition
- Queen's University
- Date de publication
- 2022
- Collation
- vii, 46 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), charts, tables
- Série
- Queen's Master in Art Conservation
- Résumé
- Synthetic dye-based inks have been used by artists since their invention in the 19th century. They have been greatly appreciated for their high tinctorial strength and colour brilliance but are known to be fugitive. Winsor and Newton’s drawing inks were first sold in the 1890s and Dr. Ph. Martin’s Synchromatic Transparent Water Colours in 1934. Both lines of inks can still be purchased today by artists. This project studied the lightfastness of these modern artist dye-based inks for works of art on paper. Jennifer Poulin and Eric Hagan from the Canadian Conservation Institute developed a methodology using a custom fadometer to study the lightfastness of historic dyes on textiles. That same methodology was adapted to study the fading of dye-based inks on paper. Dye-based inks are advertised by the manufacturers as not being lightfast, as opposed to pigment-based inks that they alsosell. Inks from both Winsor and Newton’s Drawing Inks and Dr. Ph. Martin’s Synchromatic Transparent Water Colors were tested. Samples were prepared on Arches Hot Pressed watercolour paper (140lbs) using a wide calligraphy nib. Light ageing was achieved at both Queen’s University in a Q-SUN test chamber with an arc xenon lamp and UV filter, and at CCI in a custom fadometer with a warm-white LED. Colour measurements were taken with a colour spectrophotometer before, during and after light ageing. Results from illumination sources were compared. Results from both illuminants showed that nearly all inks were highly light sensitive, a large amount of them being in the highest sensitivity category of blue wool standard 1. Colour change was typically faster with the daylight illuminant than the LED. This study helped expand CCI’s lightfastness dataset.
- Notes
- Thesis (M.A.) -- Queen's University, 2022
- Langue
- English = Anglais
- Sujet
- Printing ink - Analysis
- Printing ink - Testing
- Encre - Analyse
- Encre - Essais
- Pays
- Canada
- Type de document
- Monograph = Monographie
- Localisation
- TP 949 B53 2022
- Clé
- 19927
- Collection
- Catalogue