In recent years, some Internet artists have used Ascii in their work as if it were the raw pigment of the digital age.

Using mulch as if it were raw pigment, Ms. Miller has inscribed a message in the shoreline at the foot of Clark Street, where the sand, grasses and shells frame "On the Beach."

Early paintings used raw pigments combined with resins sourced from industrial applications and acetone.

One tabletop is filled with raw blue pigment, another with raw rose madder and the third with crumpled sheets of 22-karat gold leaf, each as delicate as a baby's breath.

But data is the raw pigment of Internet-based art, and the Lucent site presented a limited palette.

Corday created her own paint mulling raw pigment and charcoal into a synthetic polymer base to create a tar-like substance and fabricated tools for its application to raw linen and canvas.

He had the reputation of a craftsman who made his own paints from raw pigments, constructed brushes, palettes and designed and carved frames.

Traditionally, artists mixed their own paints from raw pigments that they often ground themselves and medium.

The urine would be collected and dried, producing foul-smelling hard dirty yellow balls of the raw pigment, called "purree".

While suitable media and raw pigments are available for the individual production of acrylic paint, hand mixing may not be practical due to the fast drying time and other technical issues.