As you can see from the photo above, refining the red ochre my brother and I collected from the old mine in Londonderry resulted in a wonderfully bright red pigment. It took longer to dry than I had anticipated, but I am so happy with the results that I’m not put out by that …
The colour within my pallet that I am most unhappy right now is my reds. I have had little success in claiming or modifying the rocks I collected but today I thought I would give is one more try. After sorting through the rock samples my brother and I collected and grinding these down as [...]
For some time I’ve wanted to see what might happen if I heated the pigments I collected from Nova Scotia. As anyone who has ever painted might remember, two of the most common colours found among paints are raw sienna and burnt sienna; the only difference between these two pigments being that one is …
