book of earth Art meets science in Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color, artist and ochre specialist Heidi Gustafson’s guide to creating color with Earth’s extraordinary pigments, exploring their fascinating uses today and throughout history and culture. Part anthropological study, part art book, and part how-to, Book of Earth is an immersive introduction into the world of ochre, a naturally occurring mineral used to make pigment. Each chapter delves into Heidi Gustafson’s rare pigment archive and provides a thorough exploration of natural color, while challenging our notions of the inanimate world. Featuring practical advice and techniques for creating your own pigments and applying these skills in everyday life, Gustafson also includes contributor essays offering historical and cultural perspectives on color cultivation and the meaning of pigments to various cultures. >THE WILD PIGMENT PROJECT / ARTIST WEBSITE< >BOOK ON AMAZON< the organic artist Drawing on ancient techniques, artist and primitive arts instructor Nick Neddo shows you how to reconnect with nature to make and use your own all-natural art supplies. The Organic Artist: Mark Your Own Paint, Paper, Pigments, Prints, and More from Nature encourages you to return to those days when art was made with all-natural materials, like charcoal and birch bark. Immersing you in the natural world, this book seeks to inspire creativity by connecting you to your organic roots. In addition to offering a wide variety of suggestions for using nature as supplies for art, this book also introduces the concepts of awareness and perception that are foundational to the creative process. Readers will refine drawing skills, as well as increase their appreciation for the visual arts and the natural landscape. >ARTIST WEBSITE< >BOOK ON AMAZON< EARTHEN PIGMENTS  Earthen Pigments: Hand-Gathering & Using Natural Colors in Art provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions for using natural pigments in various art media. Starting with the equipment and tools needed for collecting and gathering soils from the earth, author Sandy Webster takes the reader from the field to the studio where the processes of cleaning, sifting, and mulling result in beautiful colored pigments. Through recipes and illustrations, learn how to turn these pigments into a variety of artist mediums from water-based paints, to pastels and oil/wax crayons, casein solutions, printmaking inks, and even spun into paper threads for weaving, stitching, and tying. Several pigment samples are shown throughout, and a gallery of the artist’s works using hand-gathered pigments will inspire your own creative ideas. >ARTIST WEBSITE< >BOOK ON AMAZON< Found and Ground Everything you need to learn how to make your own natural watercolor paints, oak gall ink, plus brushes and pens to use them with. Author Caroline Ross will guide you to forage for the materials you need in your locale, and grasp the principles of simple, natural paint-making. "Natural," "no waste" and "plastic-free."’ If this is how you want to live your creative life, you will find a greener, more natural path with this book. It details a sustainable and fulfilling approach to painting. Covering every aspect of making natural paints, from finding raw materials to the techniques needed to refine it, this book is suitable for the complete beginner as well as those with experience in fine art. Found and Ground: A Practical Guide to Making Your Own Foraged Paints will also appeal to those with experience drawing and painting, but who until now have only used shop-bought materials to create their work. >AUTHOR WEBSITE< >BOOK ON AMAZON< from plant to pigment An inspiring manual full of recipes for artists to create their own pigments, paints, and pastels from botanical sources. Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator known for her explorations of handmade, homegrown pigments. In From Plant to Pigment: How to Make Your Own Vibrant Inks, Pastels and Paints she invites us into her studio, sharing the ways she has divested her practice of non-renewable synthetics in favor of the craft of handmade, homegrown, local colour. Learn the fundamental technique of how to make a lake pigment, transforming botanical dye into lasting, vivid pigment. This gorgeous book will give you the tools to make the most vibrant natural colors that are perfect for your own artistic endeavors. Sections include: Botanical sources (cultivating, foraging, harvesting and storing dye plants) / The studio larder (essential equipment and ingredients)/ Lake pigments (including Natalie’s master lake pigment recipe)/ Other plant pigments/ Artists’ materials (using your botanical pigments to make an array of artists’ materials). >ARTIST WEBSITE< >BOOK ON AMAZON<
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