When I was a bit younger I found that frozen blueberries and raspberries have a different colour than fresh blueberries and raspberries, so if anyone scrolling through the comments sees this, take most of my knowledge :)
For those using this for school/teaching, the cabbage juice is a pH indicator! It turns different colors due to the pH (Acid-Base) of the liquid. You can create a range of colors from blue to bright pink depending on what you add, and make your own pH scale!
@@zaidappes4421 I've done soap, alka seltzer and lemon juice for example. Really anything you can mix into the cabbage juice. 🤷♀️ If you Google the pH scale you can find more ideas.
This is beautifully done and very inspiring. I have always been fascinated with natural dyed and paints. Thank you for taking the time to film these experiments with natural products as paint alternatives.
I'm home schooling my siblings and we are going to do this! Going to go through the kitchen with them and go out in the natures and find and experiment with different things. 😁 I can't wait!
@Balasubramanian P All recipes that are intended to be "proper" watercolours, meaning artist grade or decent student grade quality call for gum arabic and usually glycerine (alternatively honey, golden syrup or corn syrup) as well. It's not all that expensive, so I'll link a recipe here: www.stakiwicolours.com/amp/watercolor-binder-recipe If you can't order stuff or don't want to work with gum arabic for whatever reason, the only alternative I've found is specifically advertised as child-friendly paints. Cheap and easy to make without anything toxic in it, but not comparable to proper watercolour and not very lightfast. (The same goes for the colours in this video, btw, most plant pigments are very fugitive and only suitable to be used in sketchbooks. There are some exceptions like madder root or indigo, but other than that, you'll need to rely on stones if you want to forage for your own lightfast pigments. Stuff like charcoal and ash from fire can work as well if you're looking for greys and black. Here's some info on how to get black www.webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/recipe/carbonblack.html This website has some great info on other pigments as well.) But getting back to the point of a cheap binder/cheap watercolour paints, there are several ways you can go about it. There's the basic "just raid your kitchen cupboard" approach in different levels of complexity www.growingajeweledrose.com/2014/05/easy-homemade-watercolors.html?m=1 happyhooligans.ca/homemade-watercolour-paints/ And the more nature-focused method www.lostincolours.com/natural-plant-based-watercolors-for-children/ And you could theoretically go back to the roots of watercolour and try sugar and animal glue but I can't find a recipe for that. This website explains the contents of store-bought watercolours so that could give you an idea on ratios if you want to make paints yourself: www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/pigmt1.html Whatever you go with, if you intend to keep the paints and paintings for a while, I would recommend adding clove essential oil to prevent mould and fungi messing things up. I hope this helped. Happy crafting!
Hiya Becca, Thank you, I'm glad you have found it helpful. There are many more natural colorants but I like this one because these ingredients you may already have in your cupboards. So I will do another video about the other colours. Thank you for your comment :)
Lovely colours but how long do these colours last before fading away? Is there anyway you can increase their light fastness, such as adding a binder or mordant? What would you recommend?
Adding mordants would make a dye or an ink. You might use Tannin or Alum. Honey is a great natural binder. I think you might also add gum arabic and/or glycerine. Check out other UA-cam artists. They use dry pigments, so these binders should work with the activated charcoal, ground coffee.
Grazie per questo tuo video e' da poco che sto studiando le piante tintorie ho provato a estrarre il colore rosso dal cavolo cappuccio usando l'aceto ma non mi riesce di ottenerlo così bello come riesce a te. Mi dici cosa. Inserisci nel liquido del cavolo per ottenere quel rosso brillante . Grazie
you can add salt, or a bit of vinegar to preserve it from molding more then likely Salt is how those who paper mache with flour, keep their art from molding.
Hiya victoria, So I have done 2 bath bomb videos so far, the muscle ache bath bomb had no natural colourants, but my first bath bomb video I used turmeric powder that I bought from a local food shop, and Beetroot powder that I bought from Ebay a while ago. At the time I bought it for reasons like to add to food, to make my own make-up and to use as natural colourants. On this video I made watercolour paints, but I haven't yet made powdered colours. I guess one thing you could try would be to have already dried fruit or tea bag mix then grind those down. My beetroot powder was very cheap for the amount I received and you can purchase powdered colours on Amazon & Ebay. Hope that helps :)
Interesting video, except two mistakes: purple cabbage blue isn't made with citric acid, but with baking soda, as the purple anthocyanins in the purple cabbage turn blue with an alkaline like baking soda. With an acid like citric acid, not baking soda, anthocyanins turn pink or red.
When I was a bit younger I found that frozen blueberries and raspberries have a different colour than fresh blueberries and raspberries, so if anyone scrolling through the comments sees this, take most of my knowledge :)
Bless 🙏
Technically you have made ink. Very nice video. TY
For those using this for school/teaching, the cabbage juice is a pH indicator! It turns different colors due to the pH (Acid-Base) of the liquid. You can create a range of colors from blue to bright pink depending on what you add, and make your own pH scale!
Like what things could I add?
@@zaidappes4421 I've done soap, alka seltzer and lemon juice for example. Really anything you can mix into the cabbage juice. 🤷♀️ If you Google the pH scale you can find more ideas.
@@Katherannereese does the color work on paper? :0
@@bananamilk.__.4344 Yes! You can paint with an acid/base and then paint the cabbage juice over it and it will turn!! Super fun.
@@Katherannereese I'll try it out today!! thank u sm
This is beautifully done and very inspiring. I have always been fascinated with natural dyed and paints. Thank you for taking the time to film these experiments with natural products as paint alternatives.
I'm home schooling my siblings and we are going to do this! Going to go through the kitchen with them and go out in the natures and find and experiment with different things. 😁 I can't wait!
would've liked to see these made like actual watercolour paints, with the pigments mixed into a binder
what can we use as natural binder?
@@balasubramanianp1372 acacia honey is a natural binder for watercolour
@@mariapaolasorrentino7522 Thanks. Do you know of any other natural binder that is cheaper and can be made diy?
@Balasubramanian P
All recipes that are intended to be "proper" watercolours, meaning artist grade or decent student grade quality call for gum arabic and usually glycerine (alternatively honey, golden syrup or corn syrup) as well. It's not all that expensive, so I'll link a recipe here:
www.stakiwicolours.com/amp/watercolor-binder-recipe
If you can't order stuff or don't want to work with gum arabic for whatever reason, the only alternative I've found is specifically advertised as child-friendly paints. Cheap and easy to make without anything toxic in it, but not comparable to proper watercolour and not very lightfast. (The same goes for the colours in this video, btw, most plant pigments are very fugitive and only suitable to be used in sketchbooks. There are some exceptions like madder root or indigo, but other than that, you'll need to rely on stones if you want to forage for your own lightfast pigments. Stuff like charcoal and ash from fire can work as well if you're looking for greys and black. Here's some info on how to get black www.webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/recipe/carbonblack.html
This website has some great info on other pigments as well.)
But getting back to the point of a cheap binder/cheap watercolour paints, there are several ways you can go about it.
There's the basic "just raid your kitchen cupboard" approach in different levels of complexity
www.growingajeweledrose.com/2014/05/easy-homemade-watercolors.html?m=1
happyhooligans.ca/homemade-watercolour-paints/
And the more nature-focused method
www.lostincolours.com/natural-plant-based-watercolors-for-children/
And you could theoretically go back to the roots of watercolour and try sugar and animal glue but I can't find a recipe for that.
This website explains the contents of store-bought watercolours so that could give you an idea on ratios if you want to make paints yourself:
www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/pigmt1.html
Whatever you go with, if you intend to keep the paints and paintings for a while, I would recommend adding clove essential oil to prevent mould and fungi messing things up.
I hope this helped. Happy crafting!
@@BlueGangsta1958 Amazing. Thank you
Thank you so much for a wonderful video full of really interesting ideas for natural dye based paints!
Hiya Becca, Thank you, I'm glad you have found it helpful. There are many more natural colorants but I like this one because these ingredients you may already have in your cupboards. So I will do another video about the other colours. Thank you for your comment :)
Lovely colours but how long do these colours last before fading away? Is there anyway you can increase their light fastness, such as adding a binder or mordant? What would you recommend?
Adding mordants would make a dye or an ink. You might use Tannin or Alum.
Honey is a great natural binder. I think you might also add gum arabic and/or glycerine. Check out other UA-cam artists. They use dry pigments, so these binders should work with the activated charcoal, ground coffee.
it is for fun. Dont ask for ligjtfastness lol.
Also, I would really love to see a video on some paint projects that you’ve done with these beautiful watercolour paints.
Do you still have this paper with the paint swatches? Do the colours go bad over time, considering they’re derived from perishable items
So inspiring! ✨
Thanks a lot! Natural Earth'energy, so healing!
I never realized this was so doable! I've gotta try this.
Loved this so much! Thanks 💛
Great video, thanks for sharing. I really love the beautiful, colourful clay bowl you’ve used in the video.
Grazie per questo tuo video e' da poco che sto studiando le piante tintorie ho provato a estrarre il colore rosso dal cavolo cappuccio usando l'aceto ma non mi riesce di ottenerlo così bello come riesce a te. Mi dici cosa. Inserisci nel liquido del cavolo per ottenere quel rosso brillante . Grazie
I will subcribe and like!
How do you prevent bugs?
Good tutorial. So how do you prevent it from fading quickly?
Can it rot like turn brown??
Cool
Thank you so much! Already had seen natural food coloring but this is something I didn´t think of. Will start using it!
Thank you for a lovely tutorial! Gained lots of inspiration from it 😊
You really should add some kind of binder to ensure it sticks to the paper like honey or sugar.
Arabic Gum would be better i guess
The bowl looks like an optical illusion
Thank you! It was a really great and helpful video!! ❤
Hiya, your very welcome :)
If I ever go back in time like the romance novels I will make this for myself....lol
Hmmm weird, are you sure you didn’t mix up the citric acid and bi carb in the red cabbage?
@@slothisasin8240 Really?🤔
@@shirleyjeannite5724 I re-did this experiment and I know for sure that I was wrong and the acid turns it red/pink and the base makes it blue/green.
Can u use food colouring instead for the colours?
my art teacher linked us this for homework-
great tips thank you!
you've kinda made ink but if u add some gum Arabic..it acts more like a watercolor
How do you store them without the paint spoiling?
Question: is it acidic? If it is how can I get rid of the acid?
Btw nice video I love it! ❤
Thank you so much, love! 💖💖💖
this is so great, thank you!
i guess it's one off? wouldnt that make mold later?
you can add salt, or a bit of vinegar to preserve it from molding more then likely Salt is how those who paper mache with flour, keep their art from molding.
ok so if i paint with this will it get moldy??
hi! where do you buy or how do you make natural colorants for bath bombs?
Hiya victoria, So I have done 2 bath bomb videos so far, the muscle ache bath bomb had no natural colourants, but my first bath bomb video I used turmeric powder that I bought from a local food shop, and Beetroot powder that I bought from Ebay a while ago. At the time I bought it for reasons like to add to food, to make my own make-up and to use as natural colourants.
On this video I made watercolour paints, but I haven't yet made powdered colours. I guess one thing you could try would be to have already dried fruit or tea bag mix then grind those down. My beetroot powder was very cheap for the amount I received and you can purchase powdered colours on Amazon & Ebay.
Hope that helps :)
Our Raw Beauty thanks!
This is a seriously underrated video!
do these rot??
Thank you. Very helpful
Does the art you make attract fruit flies ?!
Waht powder you use?
Interesting video, except two mistakes: purple cabbage blue isn't made with citric acid, but with baking soda, as the purple anthocyanins in the purple cabbage turn blue with an alkaline like baking soda. With an acid like citric acid, not baking soda, anthocyanins turn pink or red.
In the end you said to”hate this video “Me:wait what?
she said and i hope this video
whats this song at the start?
nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU CAN MAKE PANIT OUT OF FOOD TO!!!ヾ(;☆ω☆)ノ ヾ(;☆ω☆)ノ ヾ(;☆ω☆)ノ
Wont this rot