Rough lapis lazuli

Putting Pigment in Palette: The first step is to put the pigment in the palette. I am using a palette with 13 wells and separate lids for each, making the paint keep longer. That tiny bottle of lapis lazuli, or genuine ultramarine, pigment (10 g) cost $110.00, and it was not even the most expensive kind available. For comparison, the large hexagonal pigment jars, each containing 100 g, cost between $4.50 and $14.10 each.