Wax & Pigment

Your personal pigment lab. Build precise oil bar, wax blend, and watercolor formulas. Archive every batch. Share Studio Cards. Made for serious color makers.

Turn raw pigment into repeatable paint recipes — for oil sticks, tube paint, and watercolor.

Wax & Pigment is a studio formulation app for artists who make their own paint. Build precise pigment recipes with dedicated calculators for oil bars, handmade tube paint, and gum arabic watercolor. Every formula is saved to your personal studio archive so nothing gets lost between batches.

NEW: WATERCOLOR FORMULATION Formulate gum arabic watercolors from scratch. Set your pigment, pigment load, humectant, preservative, and container size — half pans, full pans, jars, or custom. Get a full ingredient breakdown, estimated yield, and step-by-step mixing guidance, then save the recipe to your archive.

PAINT RECIPE CALCULATORS • Oil stick & oil bar: dial in pigment, binder, oil, and wax ratios with soft / balanced / firm texture control • Tube paint: calculate batch weights and estimate tube yield • Watercolor: full gum arabic formula builder with medium breakdown • Pigment explorer: Color Index names, oil absorption, opacity, lightfastness, and handling notes • Medium preview: see each pigment rendered as an oil stick, paint dollop, or watercolor wash

STUDIO ARCHIVE & NOTES • Save, revisit, and version your paint formulas • Track tube inventory and low-stock alerts • Document results in the Experiment Lab • Export print-ready PDF recipe booklets • Generate shareable Studio Cards

From first test batch to trusted studio formula — Wax & Pigment helps pigment artists work with precision, cut material waste, and build a permanent record of what works.

Made for painters, pigment makers, and material-led artists.

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