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Tag Archives: colour

Lake pigments continued

03 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by Pia in Garden, Painting, Pigment, Plant Dyeing, Show-and-tell

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closetohome, colour, crafts, DIY, mordant, nature, plants, primitivepaints, scruffyartsupplies

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Now that I have a small first collection of pigments to play with before new plants can be tested next summer (I do have some old dried things I can try too), there are multiple ways to use them. They need some kind of binder, although I suppose you could just soak them in water. Alcohol? But even watercolours have binders added to add intensity to the colour as well as make it stick to your paper.

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Plant pigment

27 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by Pia in Painting, Pigment, Plant Dyeing, Show-and-tell

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close to home, colour, crafts, DIY, garden, mordant, nature, plants, primitivepaints, scruffyartsupplies, summer

Five years ago I did a brief test of concentrated plant dye baths to see what they were like as watercolours. I didn’t add anything to it as I recall and I’m not sure where my sample is now!

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More on local art supplies

13 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by Pia in Garden, Plant Dyeing, Show-and-tell

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close to home, colour, country life, crafts, DIY, dyeing, mordant, nature, plants

During an investigation into using dry pigments and beeswax for painting rather than oilpaints, which I’m not enjoying, I’d been reading about making lake pigments and thought it would be fun to give it a try. These are pigments from plants as opposed to rock/earth/metal based colours, and since I already had some remedies as well as dried plant materials for dyeing wool, it wasn’t too much trouble to give it a try.

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WIP Wednesday 2

28 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Painting

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colour, creativity, studio

If you’re watching this is some blog reader – please click through to the original post to see images etc! 🙂

https://piapaints.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/wip-wednesday-2/

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Wordless WIP Wednesday

31 Wednesday May 2017

Posted by Pia in Painting, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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blogging, busybee, challenge, colour, crafts, new projects, studio

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Challenge

25 Thursday May 2017

Posted by Pia in Painting, Show-and-tell

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blogging, colour, creativity, inspiration

For the next 21 days I’ll be participating in an “online community experience”, showing and talking about various aspects of painting. I’ll be writing up posts on my Paint blog as an addition to the FB group “Creative Fire”, so come on over! There is also a special Instagram tag for all the lovely images. #21daysinmyartworld

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Point and shoot 3

12 Friday May 2017

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Garden, Photography

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colour, country life, flowers, garden, nature, spring, weather

Despite cold winds and rain, nature persists in getting on with spring. Last weekend was fabulous which also meant catching up on some outdoors jobs before the next storm, but I managed an ultra short “blind” photo session (as in “I can’t see a bloody thing on the display in this light”) to remind me that sweater and woodstove days will eventually be over.

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Today I noticed the rape seed fields are blooming, which means I’ll be scanning the skyline soon for a very longterm project that I’ve pondered for a while but finally begun to organize at least. Too windy and chilly today however and not enough sun. Hopefully it’s still happening when my back has recovered from last weekend!

How is spring coming along in your part of the world? (or autumn, if that’s the case)

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Wardrobe colouring

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Sewing, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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clothing, colour, colourways, fabric, obsessions, swatch

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Today’s post is related to the previous one. As before I still struggle with my taste for colour, and every time I think I’ve developed a colourscheme of just 3-4 shades, I keep finding a few extras that would also go well. Some of them overlap into the next group, others are completely different. From buddhist monks’ robes to pale greens and blues, from intricate patterns to solids. My brain overloads completely with colours from nature all the time, any season. I could make swatches and sketches as a full time job and never get beyond that.

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Foliage of the week

27 Thursday Oct 2016

Posted by Pia in Garden, Photography

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autumn, colour, leaves, seasons, trees

– garden views for you today. I try to get my butt outside every time the weather lets up, even just for a short spell. And every year in October I just go nuts clicking at leaves, once I start I can’t seem to stop, 100’s of images and nothing to do with them! These are just the raw snaps, I hope to dive deeper into work on them later. Too many varied projects going on right now, so next task will be getting all my ducks in a row.

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Activities

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Painting, Plant Dyeing, Yarn and Fiber

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colour, crafts, intention, life, studio, wool, yarn

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Since I’ve spent so much time telling you how little I could do, I’d better counterweight that with a little progress update from the good days. Among other things I managed to grab some more photographic weather, so I now have a gazillion horse- and sunset photos to process and compile into little galleries now that it’s getting colder. Continue reading →

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