Making lake pigments

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Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "Comment PAINT & I’ll send you ✨free✨ detailed tutorials for making lake pigments & shelf-stable watercolors with plants.🫶🏼🌿   This color was made from onion skins and marigolds that had both been previously used for dyeing fabric. After dyeing, I saved the plant material for a second sunny color extraction. ☀️  To make shelf-stable plant colored watercolors, a natural dye must be turned into an insoluble pigment. 🌈 The process involves flocculating dye with an inert binder (usually alum) and is most commonly referred to as “laking”.  Lake pigments are an excellent way to reduce our waste stream by giving new life to old dye baths and can be used for a variety of artistic endeavors such as making watercolors, crayons, pastels, paints, ch Natural Pigments Diy, Diy Natural Paint, Lake Pigments, Natural Dyeing Techniques, Paint Making, Vegetable Painting, Natural Paint, Powder Dye, Dyeing Tutorials

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "Comment PAINT & I’ll send you ✨free✨ detailed tutorials for making lake pigments & shelf-stable watercolors with plants.🫶🏼🌿 This color was made from onion skins and marigolds that had both been previously used for dyeing fabric. After dyeing, I saved the plant material for a second sunny color extraction. ☀️ To make shelf-stable plant colored watercolors, a natural dye must be turned into an insoluble pigment. 🌈 The process involves…

Strata Ink on Instagram: "I’m teaching a 2 day class on lake pigments @wildcraftstudio June 29-30. It’s action packed, starting with raw plant material, making dyes, then pigment, and finally mulling it into watercolor paints. Everyone will leave with a set of handmade watercolor paints made from plants! If you are wondering what I am even talking about I wrote a blog post about lake pigments. It on the Strata Ink website, link in bio. 🌈🌈

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Strata Ink on Instagram: "I’m teaching a 2 day class on lake pigments @wildcraftstudio June 29-30. It’s action packed, starting with raw plant material, making dyes, then pigment, and finally mulling it into watercolor paints. Everyone will leave with a set of handmade watercolor paints made from plants! If you are wondering what I am even talking about I wrote a blog post about lake pigments. It on the Strata Ink website, link in bio. 🌈🌈 #lakepigment #lakepigments #botanicalcolor…

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