[eigenhombre]

If you are interested in color, pigments and paint from an artist's standpoint, I strongly recommend Tad Spurgeon's blog and his book "Living Craft"[1]. The book delves into not just classic and modern pigments and their combinations (palettes) for painting, but also many variants of and recipes for binders (paint == binder + pigment), most notably hand-refined linseed oil, which can apparently be made to dry much faster and be relatively more permanent than most commercial oils. Not always scientific but always thoughtful and surprising, the book is a very enjoyable reference for a hardcore paint geek.

Spurgeon reminds me of Knuth, in a dedicate-your-life-to-an-extremely-deep-inquiry sort of way. The book was an investment (I think I paid 80 US), but one I definitely haven't regretted.

[1] https://www.tadspurgeon.com/the_book.php?page=the+book