COLOUR-LAB #Colour-lab
Colour Lab
colour lab
THE COLOUR LAB
Welcome to the Colour Lab @LucidColour
with the largest range of pigments and
colour (+ special effect materials) in the world! Our Colour Lab is open to all...
We don't hide our secrets about colour!
If you love colour we have a interactive style colour laboratory where you can
come in to the Lab to develop your own colours for your exact needs (with our assistance if needed) or you can use our LucidColour products to mix & swatch your own unique handmade colours at the
open work bench area in the Colour Lab.
You are most welcome to come & create
in our safe, customer friendly environment
at the chromatic & colourful laboratory.
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!
OUR HISTORY...
As children we all love colour and paint,
and my colour addiction from this time has continued every day for 30+ years!
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 pickle jars and watching these co-ordinate metal complexes and coloured chemical 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. Of course I chromed my friends BMX bikes, and also candy dipped my colours over the other chrome parts, like peddles, etc...
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 and new colour discoveries was always on my mind and life goals.
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.
Missing Sydney, I moved back home to continue on making very rare and unique colours for artists, crafters, makers, plus many other colour industries and 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.
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LOVE COLOUR?
The Colour Lab 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
we have been making your own custom colour spray paint, filling the can with that colour and hand drawing your own logo or art on the outside of the spray can.
Here in the Colour Lab I look forward to making any colour you need or want....
or help you make your colour art work, products or projects colourful & perfect!
Make an appointment below to visit us at
the Colour 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 and technical questions.
