watercolor sketches (ice climbing) ( these are for an upcoming zinequest project by https://stacking-dice.itch.io/ )
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in reply to @annabelle-lee's post:
Very lovely. It doesn't look entirely like indigo, is this Sodalite or Kyanite (or some other such thing) by any chance?
ultramarine plus burnt sienna, technically, or whatever chemical substitutes they have used in my student level watercolors
do you like grind yr own pigments? I've seen people show off fancy artisanal found the rocks in the woods watercolors but I have never used them. I tried to grind up some shells I found once but it did not work
Thank you. Ultramatine explains granulation.
No, I don't. I have two tiny tubes from Daniel Smith (sodalite and kyanite, tiny because these are so very damn expensive) and I just recalled that supergranulating sodalite looking similar to what is there. I don't have any space to make my own paints, sorry.
I don't even know what one has to do to make paints but in my imagination it would be very monkish & restful
except for the ones that come out of an animal or out of trees that have been shot all full of bullets
To make watercolour paints you usually need a well-ventilated room, good flat surface (such as a big table), a big glass or glass-like panel, a big glass thing with a flat bottom ("muller" is official name but I saw it is done with small glass vase). For ingridients you need pigment powders, gum arabic in fluid form, some ox gall (alternatively: honey and/or glycerin), and some fungicide (people often use clover oil, which is why ventilated room is important as this oil is toxic to pets and can affect human on occasion). There is a bunch of videos on youtube, but one I remember seeing was by arleebean, called something like "Making a new / colour - My Handmade Watercolors". It does have a relaxing (ASMA?) sense to it, I think.
Pigments can be bought from places such as Kremer where they are already powdered fine enough for watercolours but people can also make their own (but I don't know much about how, I only know whatever it is should very, very fine).
People made watercolours with makeup shadows and food dye but those are really bad, usually, and mold quickly.
It is somewhat easier to make ink - as ink is a dye and doesn't rely on pigments, almost everything can be a component: oak galls, blueberries, rusty nails. Ink making requires a well-ventilated kitchen with a some metal / porcelain cookware you are not going to use for food preparation, some mordant (so the ink stays where it is put and doesn't flow away) and a few other things so it isn't fading on the sun too quickly. A relatively good book about ink done from everyday ingridients seems to be 'Make Ink' by Jason Logan. I have ebook somewhere if you want to take a look.
I don't have a kitchen suitable for ink and I don't have a big table in well-ventilated room, unfortunately, so my knowledge of the processes are purely theoretical.