Silicate Chalks / Single Stick, decoration & painting
System Bohring / Patent 2000.
Weather-proof, lightfast, mineral system with a pastel character.
A weather-proof painting technique, similar to pastel. Developed by restoration specialist Lothar Bohring specifically for use on mineral, anorganic surfaces, such as lime plaster, concrete, stone, non-enameled terracotta, etched or media blasted glass etc. Also suitable, of course, for use on wood, paper or any other abrasive material. For fixation, use Silikat-Kreiden FIXATIV (based on potassium silicate) on mineral surfaces and Silikat-Kreiden UNIFIX (acrylic-based) on non-mineral surfaces.
Silicate Chalks differ from all chalks in that pigments, binders and fixatives are of pure, inorganic mineral. Light-fast pigments, binder and the fixative medium (potassium silicate) underpin the weather resistance of this relatively new technique (patent 1996).
Silicate Chalks allow new, previously unknown design possibilities.
For example: linear drawing, flat thinned colour and smudging using akapad sponge, or wet with a sponge and brushed into the work.
Until it has been fixed, the colour layer may still be re-worked or removed.
For more information: Guidelines included in the wooden boxed set, or on request when ordering individual sticks.
Stick size: 10.5 x 2.7 x 1.8 cm.
Note: For technical reasons, some of the colour shades shown in the web shop may differ slightly from the actual colour of the colour sticks.
