FROM PLANT TO PIGMENT (SKITTLEDOG) (HB)

A manual full of recipes for artists to create their own pigments, paints, and pastels from botanical sources. Learn the fundamental technique of how to make a lake pigment, transforming botanical dye into lasting, vivid pigment. Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator known for her explorations of handmade, homegrown pigments. In From Plant to Pigment she invites us into her studio, sharing the ways she has divested her practice of non-renewable synthetics in favour of the craft of handmade, homegrown, local colour.