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Yes, one attempt at oil sticks - pigment, wax and a drying oil (linseed oil), still need to try oil pastels (same day ingredients, except using a non- drying oil like mineral oil)

These pigments were given to me by a friend, she bought them back when DS sold pigments. I now buy pigments online from Kremer Pigments, they have everything! You can get natural and synthetic, pretty much anything you need for paint making.

Sometimes you can find colorful rocks soft enough to grind into pigment for paint in stream beds.

Thanks for the reminder! I haven't put a swatch in the window yet.

@leam1978 Ok, I was mistaken. It is in the window. And it has faded! So the brown is not light-fast. I need to put it in a hotter fire so I can completely turn the bone into carbon.

That's great! Did it make a nice color?

@@KJodiGear stunning.... absolutely beautiful.... I wish I could show you. this weekend the workshop is on making shell gold, and the last one is on making classical Jaipuri style wasli paper, that we use for classical moghul painting. it's so interesting.

@@munanana9824 that's great! If you are on instagram, DM me a photo! @kjodigear

I use distilled water which can be slightly more acidic than tap water, but I mull in such small amounts that the amount of CO2 produced would be minimal. I also wear a mask/respirator when handling the dry malachite powder, as I don't want to breath in any of the copper compound dust. (I don't process much of this, and when I do, I do it outside, to minimize any dust in the studio)

No, they are not! Feel lucky that I found these!

Thank you!

No, I don't change the pH after I've done the laking process. (Is that what you are asking?)

The small amounts of green in with these yellow flowers don't really change the color, so it doesn't matter if they go in the dye bath too.

Thank you so much!

Glad you enjoyed it!

The stamped letters on each stick are either abbreviations of the pigment names (I have given the foraged pigments), or a mix of the first letter or two of each pigment in the stick (for mixed pigments). I have given the pigments “place” names - usually nearby locations, because it helps me remember where I foraged them. (Place names for earth pigments are pretty traditional - like sienna and umber) I had hoped to teach a couple of afternoon intro to earth pigments workshops this year, but currently dealing with some fairly debilitating back pain ☹️ so those plans are on hold! Thanks for asking, though!

Thank you for that information, I’m just getting into pigment making ❤ i hope you feel better soon and find some peace with your pain 🥰 if you do get to the point of taking on students or online classes, I’m in!!

Thank you!

I bought it right after the webinar! Steve thinks he might have met her, via all the chem ed people?

@@KJodiGear Yes, she ran one of the BCCEs (at Clemson I believe) that several of us went to.

I will work on one! Thanks for the suggestion!

You are so welcome!

Yes, I agree. And having a bunch of paper punches from other projects made these lightfastness swatches easy to make!

Thank you! Yes, most of my foraged pigments make a semi-opaque paint. I have also added them to titanium dioxide to make some opaque gouache. They take a different approach to paint with than the transparent (commercial) paints I also use - it’s been a bit of a learning curve. They lift so readily, you have to put them down and then leave them alone! Very easy to make mud if you are’t careful…

@@KJodiGear I purchased some Wallace Seymour inorganic tube paints made from materials locally coated in Scotland. The way the owner described them, they’re just gum Arabic, water and pigment, so they’re probably similar to what you’re making here. I’ll have to add some honey or glycerine (maybe a little of both) to dry them in pans. I just love artisanal paints, especially if the pigment is made from locally foraged materials, I haven’t made any yet, but I bought a muller and made a frosted glass palette to try! I really enjoy your videos!

Thank you so much!

I remove the magnetite to make paint out of it by itself. I have left it in with the sand and made paint too, but it's nice to have the really black paint on its own.

Oh! Excellent! Thanks.

Me too!

I was also very surprised! Maybe there was residual magnetite in it?

@@jessieellwood yes, there is residual magnetite in this sand, I can get most of it out, but not all of it.

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks so much 😊

I find the colored stones and soil near where I live. You can purchase natural earth pigments online from places that sell pigments, like Kremer Pigments.

I do occasionally sell some sample dot cards, and some of my extra pan paints. Do you do Instagram? I usually list them there when I have them - if you follow me there, you can DM me and I’ll let you know when I have some available. @kjodigear

It really is! I've been a painter forever but only in the last 6 years started foraging pigments and making my own supplies!

I buy the vials on amazon, they come in different sizes. You can also find slightly bigger jars (Google rooster mason jar shots) that will hold more pigment.

@@KJodiGear thank you! Can’t seem to find it. I’m looking for the very small/flat ones you showed. Looks like a lip balm container

@@elinlee17 oh, sorry! Those are plastic, they were given to me by someone. Pretty sure they are lip balm containers! Let me see if I can find them.

@elinlee17 i can’t find them online, but what does show up are the little flat round bead containers with clear screw tops that you can get at any craft store (I’ve even seen them at walmart). They are a little bigger than the ones I have, but they would work for storing watercolor temporarily. (They don’t seal airtight, but that wouldn’t really matter). I have purchased some glass ones with metal lids from amazon for my oil paints (they are in the oil paint video) - I really like those, but many of the comments complained about them arriving broken (and several of mine did).

@@KJodiGearohh ok great! Thank you so much for letting me know and looking into it😄❤will try those!

The iron oxide/hydroxide earth pigments are light-fast. So rocks that you find that are soft enough to grind will make a light-fast paint. The color/dye you get from plants (the botanical pigments) will not be light-fast. Some will last longer than others, but they will all fade in UV light.

Nothing wrong with charcoal. I have a carbon black I made from wood charcoal in the altoids tin as well. And scraped carbon off a surface from an oil lamp. They all mull up slightly differently.

@aliveandwell early on, i experimented with changing the pH of the dye to get a different color, then doing the laking process, and found that if I made the dye too acidic, the laking process didn’t work. Sometimes the process completely changes the color on its own - I have a couple of purple leafed trees and the dye is purple, but when you add the sodium carbonate, the lake pigment turns green.

@@KJodiGear think to dye wool from a lake, acid is added (so called a split lake)(wish worked on cotton fabric also, will try painting on fabric, then after mordant)

@@1aliveandwell yes, that would make sense that acid would undo it. (As when you add it beforehand, it doesn't allow the precipitate to form)

@@KJodiGear just found this by M Garcia on chem of Al in clay, think is saying using lime or ashes to make useable?! ua-cam.com/video/VDotxdgFdYA/v-deo.html You have clear information on your videos

You’re welcome 😊 It is a really nice blue!

Some people use the seashells as containers to hold the paint. Be really careful about grinding shells, some of the creatures with shells (like mussels) concentrate heavy metals in them and breathing that dust is bad. Google “Gillian Genser” - a sculptor who got heavy metal poisoning due to the blue mussel shells she carved and used in her art.

@@KJodiGear Hi, Kjodi, I'm very grateful for this precious advice and the link to G.Genser. What a story!! I'm always careful not to buy hazardous pigments to grind. I have a list with all the pigments' information and seashells is one to add and definitively do research before experimenting. Many thanks again & have a great day!😊

You are so welcome!

that’s it! Thank you!

yes, thank you, exactly! I figured that out awhile after I made them (and they developed a skin, like oil sticks). I also made several that had too much wax in them, so they were more like crayons. I still need to try this again, to make a better oil stick, and also thought I’d try using mineral oil for the oil pastel? I believe that it is non drying.

Glad it was helpful!

@@KJodiGear i have an urge to figure out how to make marbled paper with the clay/earth pigments…using natural materials from local sources…so kinda rules out the seaweed thickener…any thoughts?

@woodsiastudio Do you follow Skye on instagram? @aequoreamarbling She will know.

yes, there are many beautiful oil and dry pastels that you can purchase, and I also enjoy making art with them!