from plant to pigment: how to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints - by natalie stopka

From Plant to Pigment is a manual full of recipes for artists to create their own pigments, paints, and pastels from botanical sources. Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator known for her explorations of handmade, homegrown pigments. She focuses on the material history of color and sustainable studio practice. Natalie’s studio and dye garden are located in Yonkers, New York. Her teaching experience includes Penland, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Textile Arts Center, SUNY New Paltz, and Rhode Island School of Design.

In From Plant to Pigment, she invites us into her studio, sharing the ways she has divested her practice of non-renewable synthetics in favor of the craft of handmade, homegrown, local color. Learn the fundamental technique of how to make a lake pigment, transforming botanical dye into lasting, vivid pigment. This book will give you the tools to make the most vibrant natural colors that are perfect for your own artistic endeavors.

Book sections include: Botanical sources (cultivating, foraging, harvesting and storing dye plants). The studio larder (essential equipment and ingredients). Lake pigments (including Natalie’s master lake pigment recipe). Other plant pigments Artists’ materials (using your botanical pigments to make an array of artists’ materials).

language: English