Editing Bone char (section)

===Black pigment===
[[File:MANET - Música en las Tullerías (National Gallery, Londres, 1862).jpg|thumbnail|Édouard Manet, ''Music in the Tuileries'', 1862]]

Bone char is also used as a black [[pigment]] for [[paint|artist's paint]], printmaking, calligraphic and drawing inks as well as other artistic applications because of its deepness of color and excellent tinting strength.  [[Bone Black (pigment)|Bone black]] and ivory black are artists' pigments which have been in use since historic times—by both old masters like [[Rembrandt]] and [[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez]] and more modern painters such as [[Édouard Manet|Manet]] and [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]]. The black dresses and high hats of the gentlemen in Manet's ''[[Music in the Tuileries]]'' are painted in ivory black.<ref>Bomford D, Kirby J, Leighton, J., Roy A., ''Art in the Making: Impressionism''.  National Gallery Publications, London, 1990, pp. 112-119</ref><ref>[http://colourlex.com/project/manet-music-in-the-tuileries/ Édouard Manet, 'Music in the Tuileries Gardens'], ColourLex</ref>

Ivory black was formerly made by grinding charred [[ivory]] in [[oil]]. Nowadays  ivory black is considered a synonym for bone black. Actual ivory is no longer used because of the expense and because animals that are natural sources of ivory are subject to international control as [[endangered species]].