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They would get a pestle and mortar and grind natural minerals and pigments with linseed oils. Linseed oil will evaporate into the air leaving behind a resin binder that bonds the pigment to the canvas. This takes about a month. Many different rocks and mineral ores were ground up,even Egyptian mummies were ground to make a deep brown

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