May 12th 2018 Heritage Skills Centre, Lincoln Castle – Fully Booked
May 18th 2019 Gloucestershire Lettering Arts – Fully Booked
During this workshop we will extract pigments from a stone found in a Lincolnshire field, plants such as weld and madder, and a copper based mineral (chrysocolla, azurite or malachite, depending on availability).
Each process is slightly different, giving a good insight into to art of natural paint making.
Pigments extracted during a workshop. A couple of them do look like jam…
…but when dried, they look like this –
– ready to be transformed into paint – watercolour, egg tempera or oil, depending on the interests of the group.
Safety
Goggles, masks and gloves are provided and careful handling of materials is stressed.
Notes for Group Organisers
This worshop is flexible and can easily be adapted for those who would prefer to spend more time making paint / painting and less time grinding rocks to extract pigments.