Highly widespread whose importance is unquestionable paint that is. And yet from time immemorial, grades of paint helped out rendering our lives more colorful and, consequently, the surroundings. Without paint humans wouldn’t be able to create some of the most magnificent deeds ever, our artistic paintings. Throughout the years,  ingredients contained in painting started to vary and, this way, new types of paints started to be invented. In the 20th century, water-based paints, including watercolors and acrylic paints, became very popular with the development of latex and acrylic pigment suspensions. Milk paints, whose some components are milk-derivatives, as popular in the 19th century  still available today. Also, egg tempera (where the main component is egg yolk) still much en vogue, as are encaustic wax-based paints.

Gouache is a variety of watercolor paint which was also used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance for manuscript illumination. The pigment was often made of ground semiprecious stones such as lapis lazuli and  made from either gum arabic or egg white. Gouache is commercially available today. Another kind of paint that certainly has its importance is the ink. What most people don’t know about is what cartoons used to show: black pigmented syrup, which cartoonists use to draw with. In fact, therein bears truth within somehow, but what people don’t know is that there ain’t just one type of ink, after all. The pigmented inks contain in their composition, other colour binding agents to ensure adhesion on the paper surface, preventing it from being removed by many cirumstances. There are even dyes in inks that results on rather strong painting likely to produce more color out of a given density per unit of mass. Due to the fact that dyes mean liquid-dissolving properties, they always soak when in contact with paper surface, rendering ink less efficient, and sometimes, producing sipping at the edges, producing poor quality printing.