Art - Ink and Paint Making

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Oak & Sycamore Leaf Dye 🍂 Leaves are one of my absolute favorite fall dye sources. While we don’t get the vibrant autumn colors here, that doesn’t mean they don’t produce gorgeous dyes. As tree leaves mature, their tannin levels rise, making fall the perfect season for natural dyeing with leaves. I love gathering freshly fallen leaves—especially oak leaves, which tend to shed branches and leaves naturally, making them easy to find in good condition right on the ground. However, older leaves...

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Canyon Pigment: Self-Made

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🌈A Spectrum of Color from food waste & food dyes by @thedogwooddyer Be sure to check out her profile for great tutorials. Tapping a tiny waste stream at home just may be the EASIEST way to begin natural dyeing for ANYONE who has always wanted to try. 🍽️ As holiday meal season approaches, Learn everything you’d ever want to know on the very approachable gateway to dyeing: food & food waste color! ✨A Year in Natural Dyes✨ & my 🥕Food Waste Dyeing Lesson Download🥕has it all! Where I share all...

instructions on how to make real gold paint for crafts and home decorating projects with pictures

How to make gold paint

Medieval Arts & Crafts: How to make gold paint

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Have a go at Natural Dyeing using common garden plants - Sarah Burns Patterns

I’ve been really missing my Wild Textiles workshops when I take groups of students foraging on the Downs for plants which make natural dyes – nearly all plants make some kind of colour and once we get back to the workshop we get to experiment with lots of wonderful leaves, roots and flowers – we […]

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My own definitive Oil pastel recipe and method - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists

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Foraging for Pigments from Local Rocks: Making Watercolors, Oils, and Egg Tempera Paint from the Land! - The Druids Garden

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From plant to pigment

From plant to pigment – Rachael Singleton

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Mulling Natural Earth Pigments

Matural earth pigments can be used tk create artist materials. Mulling is the process of suspending pogments in a binder.