Earth Pigments
I got the Earth Pigment color chart from Sinopia in San Francisco:
The colors are fabulous. Earth Pigments are finely ground powders that are dug directly out of the Earth. Soil color differs from place to place, depending on the minerals in the soil. Copper gives a greenish color, iron gives a reddish color, etc. There are no blues or purples on the chart. Blues and purples are available, but they're very expensive, because they're ground from semi-precious crystalline materials such as lapis lazuli.
I'm using dry pigments and a soy milk binder to paint backgrounds for my mold pieces. So far I've experimented with these three:
From left to right they are Caput Mortuum (an iron-oxide pigment), Yellow Ochre, and Green Earth. The binder is holding up really well, and next I'm going to paint some Earth-toned abstracts on unprimed canvas.
The colors are fabulous. Earth Pigments are finely ground powders that are dug directly out of the Earth. Soil color differs from place to place, depending on the minerals in the soil. Copper gives a greenish color, iron gives a reddish color, etc. There are no blues or purples on the chart. Blues and purples are available, but they're very expensive, because they're ground from semi-precious crystalline materials such as lapis lazuli.
I'm using dry pigments and a soy milk binder to paint backgrounds for my mold pieces. So far I've experimented with these three:
From left to right they are Caput Mortuum (an iron-oxide pigment), Yellow Ochre, and Green Earth. The binder is holding up really well, and next I'm going to paint some Earth-toned abstracts on unprimed canvas.
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