Long before the invention of synthetic pigments and acrylic paints, countless generations of artists have honed methods for creating fine pigments and quality paint from purpose-grown plants and waste animal products. Join Dan Hettinger as he leads us through his process for creating DIY, lightfast, quality paints from plants and animals grown and harvested from his own property and nearby farms. First, we’ll cover the processes for growing and extracting lightfast plant-based pigments from Japanese Indigo, Weld, and Madder root, as well as earth pigments, carbon blacks, and whites from calcined eggshells. From there we’ll learn about natural plant and animal binders that you can process in your own home: egg-based tempera and glair, plant-based linseed, black walnut oils, and animal protein binders made from casein & hide glue. Putting it all together, we’ll show how to blend, store and use these paints in the home studio.
Our new workshop format welcomes live participants online via LivingWebFarms.org and our YouTube channel. Post questions as you have them and we will answer them at the end of the presentation. Registration is not necessary.
Please quit putting yourself down. You are working on gaining knowledge about creating natural painting medium. How large is your competition? That’s what I thought…. Please realize what the knowledge how good is the knowledge that you are providing. Thank you.
There are others, flattening agents, accelerators and such, but paint is essentially comprised of three components. Pigments, vehicles, and binders, the vehicles being the solvents.
Just starting this video. As someone who has been looking out for more versatile home grown plant outputs, this is so exciting! Thank you for taking the time to do this!