Old Shed, Red Sunset · Making Paint from Rocks

Old Shed, Red Sunset

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!

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Making Paint from Rocks

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