Most are from lake pigments, with a few earth pigments in the mix.

From the top left, reading right:

Top row: Red roses, iron oxide, greens from florist waste, cranberries

Middle row: Red roses (again,) red cabbage, kyanite, lemons

Botton row: Spinach and corriander, just spinach, beets, agate grindings (from my rock tumbler)

These are just the ones I managed to get potted and dried, I have a whole box of mixed paints waiting on another order of watercolour pots.

They all look a bit different in consistency in part because I’ve tried a few different formulas of watercolour mix, and because they’re made from different things. Cranberries and red cabbage always end up a bit “sticky.”

My latest formula for watercolours is:

  • 300g Gum Arabic Solution (gum arabic powder and water)
  • 280g Glycerine
  • 20g Clear honey
  • 20 Drops clove oil (antibacterial - paints will mold)

I mix into pigment at a 1:1 ratio by weight.

  • Wren@lemmy.todayOPMEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Sure thing. These aren’t the exact same ones. They look way richer when they’re still wet, and get better the more water I work into them. It’s just a matter of figuring out a better formula now.

      • Wren@lemmy.todayOPMEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        Red roses, weirdly. The dye bath turned pinky brown, dyed silk a light salmon colour, made red-brown as an alcohol ink, and turned blue during the lake pigment process - but the filters all stained purple. Roses, man.

        Yellow ones made brown pigment.

          • Wren@lemmy.todayOPMEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            I haven’t been making organic paints for long enough to experience it, but they are considered fugitive pigments. I think I mentioned in another comment how I use archival spray that blocks UV to help them last longer. I also store my pigments and paints in closed containers.