THE WORLD'S BEST PIGMENTS & COLOUR EFFECTS
ABOUT OUR SHOP
AND LABORATORY
Welcome to our in-store customer shop
with the largest range of pigments and
colour (+ special effect materials) in the world! Our Shop & Lab is open to all...
We don't hide our secrets about colour!
If you love colour we have an interactive style Shop / Laboratory where you can
come in to the space to develop your own colours for your exact needs. You can also use our LucidColour products to mix and swatch your own unique handmade colours at the customer work bench areas.
You also have direct access to all
synthetic pigments that have ever been made on earth over the last 100 years for your own paint or product making.
We are fully qualified to perform colour formulations & product development for every industry using pigments, colour or
colour effects and we can assist you to make colour for your own application, from eco-plastics to any resin or make colour into any medium or stick to anything!
Follow us on instagram for free samples
and Colour giveaways @LucidColour
We also help new artists with cost price colour and donate 'colour for a cause'.
Send us a message for more details...
ABOUT Luke @Lucid
As a child I loved colour, especially red and fluoro pink! My colour addiction has continued so strong in life to become a pigment and colourant manufacturer.
It all started when moving to Sydney
at 6 with my parents from Poland and
Sicily, they were mechanics and they
started an engine repair shop in 'The
Sydney'. I would break open the half dead car batteries at the garage to take out the lead plates from the acid with pliers. Yes sometimes burning my hands.
This is where a childhood obsession started, mixing acid with copper wire, coins from cars or even chrome badges from junk cars. Putting these mixtures into empty pickle jars and watching
these co-ordinate metal complexes and coloured crystals grow and change. With a collection of colour filled jars, I turned the old out dated 'outback dunny' at the garage into my miniature Colour Lab!
After eating a lot of pickles, I read about
nitration and electro-plating. This led to chroming my friends BMX bikes, and candy dipping my colours over the other chrome parts, peddles, rims, and bars.
These experiments went on and led to
making explosives from the same acid
and metals as a 'free radical' teenager. .
After university I was contracted to the
Australian Federal Police (AFP) bomb squad, where my technical knowledge was innovative, but my love of colour
chemistry is and will be my objective.
Returning back to reacting chemicals
into colourful pigments in New York, the place of emerging artists that would
bring me a 1000 pennies to convert into
copper blue pigments. Just $10 bucks
would get an artist many pounds of color. I also worked directly with many world renown artists making custom pigments.
Not giving up my Polish and Australian
passports, I moved back to Sydney and continued making very rare and unique colours for artists, crafters, makers, plus many other colour industries. Also continuing those complex chemical reactions to feed my own colour addiction, dedication, and dangerous discovery for new colours to complete
my childhood experiments and dreams
to find every possible colour in the world.
LOVE COLOUR?
Our colourful shop door is always open
to all colour lovers, artists, makers, and
anyone that is interested in the world of pigments and colour. We also support many charities including beyond blue,
so if you feel bored or blue, hopefully we can cheer you up making some super bright pigments and colours together...
Come in and mix up a batch of paint,
ink, eye shadow or anything of colour
you need. Jar it up and take it with you to
use in your space, studio or workshop.
Our latest days in the lab with our visitors
they have been making their own custom colour spray paint, filling the can with that colour and hand drawing artworks and designs on the outside of the spray can.
I look forward answering questions or making any colour you need or want....
and also help you make your artworks, products, or projects colours perfect!
Make an appointment below to visit us at
the Shop / Lab to make your very own
unique colour palette or come in just for
a cup of tea/coffee, chat about pigments,
or your project ideas, or how we can help you with colour or technical questions.
