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Catherine Lambert  

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Making paint

Journal Entry: Sat Feb 16, 2008, 6:14 AM
  • Mood: Tired
  • Listening to: Robots In Disguise - Turn It Up
  • Reading: Raoul Vaneigem - Revolution of Everyday Life
It's a long shot, but has anyone here tried making paint using natural plant pigments and acrylic medium? I'm looking into mixing paint in attempt at making something less environmentally damaging and the only ones available online seem to be household paints and watercolours.

It's giving me a headache trying to find this stuff out, but anyway here's what I've discovered. Not sure if anyone'll find this useful, but it's hard to find information on this online so I thought I'd post it anyway:

* Paints with "hue" at the end of their names tend to be less toxic.
* Non-toxic mineral pigments aren't particularly environmentally friendly because of the processes involved in removing them from the ground.
* Pure acrylic is allegedly a good non-toxic resin - plant oils (linseed, soy) can be energy-intensive to harvest and hard to use. I'd rather not use animal products like egg tempera or casein.
* Don't inhale mineral pigments! Wear a dust mask.

So far I've only tried mixing pure acrylic medium with natural pigments. Not sure how permanent they are, but they should at least be okay for practice work. Here's a list:

Yellow - tumeric
Orange - tumeric + paprika
Red/mauve - alkanet root or beetroot
Pink - rosehip granules or beetroot
Blue - blue chamomile or blue cypress essential oil
Green - blue chamomile + tumeric
Brown - cinnamon
Peach - paprika
Black - charcoal

The colours are pretty good (haven't tried all of them yet) but the paint is really grainy. Not sure how to get around this. Then again, I'm not sure how grainy mineral pigments turn out when mixed with paint and what people do about that. Have to look into it.

Useful links:
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[link] has a list of non-toxic permanent mineral pigments
[link]
[link] has a little info on longevity

If anyone else has tried this I'd really appreciate your comments. This is giving me a headache! Thanks.

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 19
  • Current Residence: UK
  • Interests: Playing guitar, activism, the environment, magick
  • Favourite movie: Bladerunner, Donnie Darko, A Scanner Darkly, Studio Ghibli stuff, Akira
  • Favourite band or musician: Emperor, Tool, Cradle of Filth, Shpongle, Younger Brother, Elend, Ott, Burzum, A Perfect Circle
  • Favourite genre of music: Weird shit
  • Favourite artist: Austin Osman Spare, Daniel Richter, Bill Viola, Alex Grey
  • Favourite poet or writer: William Burroughs, PK Dick, HP Lovecraft, Peter Carroll, CrimethInc
  • Tools of the Trade: Nature, freedom, primality, urban decay, chaos and laughter, primordial vines and urban undergrowth

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~Varcolac:iconVarcolac: May 9, 2008, 11:52:27 AM
Hi Catherine, how are you doing? Been a while since I have been in contact so thought I would get in touch!

Newest art looks great! Keep up the good work!
*giorjoe:icongiorjoe: May 1, 2008, 6:35:49 PM
I like your work a lot!
Thanks for the comment!

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=Lepratweek:iconLepratweek: Apr 2, 2008, 8:34:42 PM
OH NO! Cthullhu saw me.
~OverlordMortiroth:iconOverlordMortiroth: Mar 22, 2008, 10:20:29 AM
Hey there, I saw your DA on a post on a student forum whilst I was looking up on London Universities! :)

Very nice gallery ^_^
~panshadow:iconpanshadow: Mar 21, 2008, 7:56:25 AM
thanks...stay dark

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*tiamat9:icontiamat9: Mar 9, 2008, 9:28:30 PM
Thanks for the watch.

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~Sphinx90210:iconSphinx90210: Jan 18, 2008, 12:58:00 AM
Nice gallery...

:floating:

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*malikanas:iconmalikanas: Dec 16, 2007, 11:54:49 AM
Many thanks for your visit and all the nice comments, great gallery you have here. :)
~PorcelynIvy:iconPorcelynIvy: Dec 4, 2007, 6:31:17 PM
thanks for the :+fav: & add. :heart:
~SorenGama:iconSorenGama: Nov 28, 2007, 7:00:36 AM
haha my other message says 'I was just thinking about you'

... and yesterday I was planning on watching Evangelion...

'the minds are joined'

:)

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~mahamudra:iconmahamudra: Nov 28, 2007, 2:20:38 AM
Thanks for being a friend, and for the favs.

Peace :)
*mehmeturgut:iconmehmeturgut: Nov 4, 2007, 9:51:47 AM
thank u so much for the watch . . .
=anca28:iconanca28: Nov 3, 2007, 3:53:07 AM
thank you so much :hug:

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~ashes2infinity:iconashes2infinity: Oct 30, 2007, 12:17:52 PM
i'm doing much more better, thanx!
love the new work, and thanks for faving!

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*lostbooks:iconlostbooks: Oct 24, 2007, 8:18:47 PM
Thanks for faving my Great Book Drop.
*lostbooks:iconlostbooks: Oct 3, 2007, 8:34:38 PM
Thanks for adding The Lost Book Club to your devWatch.
~SJWood:iconSJWood: Oct 3, 2007, 7:38:19 AM
Catherineeeeeeee! I found you! muahahaha!

Sarah xx

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=karil:iconkaril: Sep 11, 2007, 9:49:24 AM
:thanks: so much for the fav´s !!!

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~emmson:iconemmson: Sep 1, 2007, 9:54:57 AM
thanks for the comment :)

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~yoyo-play:iconyoyo-play: Aug 4, 2007, 3:42:45 AM
tnx for the :+fav:
:alphaosiris:

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~bitterforever:iconbitterforever: Aug 3, 2007, 8:54:46 AM Mood: Joy
Hello Catherine !

Thanks for the comments, appreciate your interest :)

Best wishes, and for a better summer over there, too !

Micke

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~Divatkreacio:iconDivatkreacio: Jul 5, 2007, 4:14:57 AM
Oops, I totally ignored your comment on my work. Yeah, I took the photo with long shutter time and left it unchanged :p And I can't understand how a calm stream on a sunny day accidentally looks like a furious storm in the photo :D It's beyond my knowledge.
~Divatkreacio:iconDivatkreacio: Jul 5, 2007, 4:11:49 AM
Hehe, you deserved the fav and thanks for you too :P
=karil:iconkaril: Jun 30, 2007, 7:41:27 AM
:thanks: for the support ..!! :rose:
*gromyko:icongromyko: Jun 19, 2007, 8:28:26 PM Mood: Wow!
Your works remind me of my friend :iconsytraxia:...well done...thanks for the visit

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