Good morning Paint-Makers! I'm still not sure how the platform works to allow the course members to see it - let me know if you have any trouble opening the video on Tools of the Trade and I'll try to figure out what happened. ~ Madison

This is my latest painting (as of Dec 2025). The colors are from locally gathered and processed pigments. One color we don't have is a good green. I can get a gray-green from one of the local stones, but to get the shades of green in this painting, I used a very small amount of primary yellow and green. I buy those pigments as powders and make a 1/2 tube of paint, and then mix that into the paint from the stone. Another pigment I outsource for oils is titanium white. Limestone makes a great white in watercolor, but there is nothing here to make white in oil paints. So anyway, this is one of my paintings using locally foraged pigments. I'd love to see your work, too, so please share!

I have no artistic abilities so hopefully I can learn some here.