#earth pigment

[bumblebeeappletree]

Soy milk is a natural binder that can turn colorful earth pigments into a wonderful paint to create printed designs on fiber. The protein of soy milk allows minerals like ochre, umber and red oxide to adhere to textile to expand your natural palette with the rich hues found beneath your feet. This video tutorial will show you how to make homemade soy milk to prepare textile and earth pigment paint to print a one-of-a-kind pattern on cotton fiber.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Earth pigment soy paint

1:29 Colorful minerals

2:32 Natural Earth Paint

4:09 Soy milk binder

6:52 How to make soy milk

9:23 Fiber prep

10:40 How to make soy pigment paint

12:19 Printing pad

15:44 Earth pigment printing

17:21 Results

20:59 Wrap up

21:26 Sneak peek of next tutorial

22:17 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Textile - cotton shown in video

Earth pigments

Soy milk

Measuring cup

Measuring spoon

Tongs

Bowl

Whisk

Mark-making tools - sponge, brush, stencil, etc.

Printing pad

Pins, tacks or painter's tape

Scrap cloth for barrier

[sybils-pride]

My first colour is Cinnamon! It is a red ochre pigment, from the Guédelon medieval castle site. A wonderful orange-red earth tone, great for animal fur, bricks, or those fall forests.

It is also the name for a eumelanin-based coat colour in cats, the most recessive of the three variations of the black-coat gene.

As you can see, I'm still figuring out what I want to call the business, so I'll likely re-upload Cinnamon when I'm sure about what to title it!

[altrbody]

Danxia Mountain, China

[iromihon]

シュミンケ リキッドアース リキッドチョーク PW18

[keepingitneutral]

Heidi Gustafson’s ‘Book of Earth’

In her new Book of Earth, published by Abrams, she takes us on a journey through rare pigments and their landscapes in a celebration of what she describes as the “behavior, capacities, being-ness, language, needs, and concerns” of the material.

Each chapter of Book of Earth is dedicated to an aspect of Gustafson’s archive, which contains more than 600 samples. The volume elucidates the world of natural color, challenging our perceptions of terrain and the inanimate world, and includes practical advice and techniques for creating your own pigments.

[indecisivegloom]

[canisvesperus]

Brown skin is so beautiful are racists tripping like real talk

[thestonedknifeman]

Earth pigments

[alaskan-wallflower]

someone said ‘the whitest person in the world is living among us’ and then i realized i’m the whitest person in the world

[kayhanky]

[sybils-pride]

Over the past week or so, I have experimented with Tuxedo (Iron oxide), Abyssinian (caput mortuum), and Tabby, Brindle & Cypers (raw umber). Tabby, Brindle & Cypers need a bit more experimenting, and I might not make all three, but I'm definitely having a blast!

New pans should arrive soon, and I've got a few more pigments incoming as well. Hopefully next week I'll be able to make some big enough batches to finally get started putting them up on Ko-fi!

[harpalion]

it says a lot about me that my idea of fun is writing 10k words about the reproductive systems of my aliens. it says even more about me that my other idea of fun is plotting out their color genetics down to the locus and every single possible color mutation and all methods of inheritance. melanocortin 1 receptor u will always be famous

[iromihon]

シュミンケ リキッドアース リキッドサンギン PR102

[oasisofgalaxies]

The strange and alien can be found amongst the mundane and small. Little wonders can be found everywhere.

[flyingclubhouse]

I'm proud of this handmade watercolor palette. I experimented with a lot a pigments from various sources to create the strongest natural earth colors I could. They're very satisfying to paint with.

I usually use watercolors in mixed media and in my illustrations, but I wanted to try this palette out all by itself. Since these are natural earth pigments, it's basically a palette of browns, (and one gray). It makes painting a subject and interesting challenge with no blues or greens.

[passengerpigeons]

once i get my art space tidied back up i should inventory my paints. i think i might try and replicate my gouache go-to palette (I call it my iron palette - light red, prussian blue, yellow ochre, burnt umbre) in watercolors