One definition of paint is “a liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating”. Paints have been used for thousands of years but not by everyone. Archaeological evidence has found that ancient Egyptians, for example, used six colours - white, black, blue, red, yellow, and green. They mixed their colours using some gummy substance then applied each colour separately. They did not blend the colours and so might not have had shades such as ‘cool pink’ or ‘desert peach’...
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