A word of warning for the curious: if you want to try this, you're going to be grinding those eggshells for a loooooooooooooooooooooong time. And then some.
Lol! You notice I make this paint in really small quantities! And this mortar has a rough surface on the inside. I do 1/4/ to 1/2 teaspoon at a time (which makes about 1/4 pan to a 1/2 pan of paint - plenty for one artist. I also have a dedicated electric coffee/spice grinder that I sometimes use. If you sift the eggshells through a fine sieve after, you don’t have to spend so much time mulling. It helps to have a frosted surface on your mulling glass and a proper muller for the final grind. Smooth glass won’t help to grind the paint.
@KJodiGear I'll look to see if you have a video on that. Thank you. Your videos were very helpful. A few years back, I made up a whole set of pastel watercolors with the addition of PW6. Right now, I want to supplement my W&N primary gouache colors with handmade paints, and I did buy food grade calcium carbonate for this purpose. Foraging for my own pigments are next on my to-do list. :)
Haha! It’s one of those rabbit holes that is pretty addicting if you get into making your own paint. Not for everyone, I know - I still do a lot of paintings with my nice purchased paints that come in tubes, but there is something pretty cool about making your own, especially if you can forage your pigments in the wild.
Have an old indigo dye vat and wonder if enuf indigo left to add to clay or eggshells (have some Aracana ones saved) to girnd for watercolor. Will check it out.
I make my own watercolor medium. It's a mixture of gum arabic, honey, glycerin, ox gall and clove oil. You can find my recipe on one of my blog posts on my website. todayatmydesk.weebly.com/blog it's the 4/19/2020 post.
My watercolor medium is gumbarabic, honey, glycerin, ox gall and clove oil. My recipe is on my blog, there is a link in one of the comments above. None of the botanical pigments are light-fast though Indigo does take longer to fade than many of the other blue or purple botanical pigments.
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A word of warning for the curious: if you want to try this, you're going to be grinding those eggshells for a loooooooooooooooooooooong time. And then some.
The original daily grind
Lol! You notice I make this paint in really small quantities! And this mortar has a rough surface on the inside. I do 1/4/ to 1/2 teaspoon at a time (which makes about 1/4 pan to a 1/2 pan of paint - plenty for one artist. I also have a dedicated electric coffee/spice grinder that I sometimes use. If you sift the eggshells through a fine sieve after, you don’t have to spend so much time mulling. It helps to have a frosted surface on your mulling glass and a proper muller for the final grind. Smooth glass won’t help to grind the paint.
@@KJodiGear Just curious... why can't you use the same spice grinder you use for food?
@@TheSongwritingCat you absolutely could. I just have one of those old ones that I've dedicated to pigment stuff in my studio.
@KJodiGear Sounds like my motto.....work smart, not hard. 😊
Wow, I need this blue in my life!😊It's so beautiful! Thank for this great tutorial. ⭐
You’re welcome 😊 It is a really nice blue!
I was going to ask you to teach the girls and I how to do this, and now I see you’ve made these lovely videos!!! Thank you for sharing!! ✨🙏🏼✨
You are so welcome!
Sometimes, it's the simple things in life that bring us serenity. Thank you for sharing.
thank you! It can be a nice and relaxing thing to spend time on in the studio for sure.
@KJodiGear I always look forward to mulling watercolors. My next step is making gouache. 🌞
@@TracyIndy I've made a cloudscape set of gouache colors using titanium dioxide (you can get it as food grade) and my foraged pigments.
@KJodiGear I'll look to see if you have a video on that. Thank you. Your videos were very helpful. A few years back, I made up a whole set of pastel watercolors with the addition of PW6. Right now, I want to supplement my W&N primary gouache colors with handmade paints, and I did buy food grade calcium carbonate for this purpose. Foraging for my own pigments are next on my to-do list. :)
@@TracyIndy I haven't made a RUclips video of that yet, but I do have some posts on my Instagram feed . But they were awhile ago.
Just goes to show how far humans have gone/will go for art, imagine being bored enough when snowed in to do this in the dead of winter.
Haha! It’s one of those rabbit holes that is pretty addicting if you get into making your own paint. Not for everyone, I know - I still do a lot of paintings with my nice purchased paints that come in tubes, but there is something pretty cool about making your own, especially if you can forage your pigments in the wild.
Bored? A bored person has so many options. This needs practice, inspiration and a love for a journey only this creator knows! 🙏🏽
Amazing
Have an old indigo dye vat and wonder if enuf indigo left to add to clay or eggshells (have some Aracana ones saved) to girnd for watercolor. Will check it out.
Beautiful
Thank you!
lovely video! was wondering what medium you're using as a binder? Is it Gum Arabic based, or Oak Gal?
I make my own watercolor medium. It's a mixture of gum arabic, honey, glycerin, ox gall and clove oil. You can find my recipe on one of my blog posts on my website. todayatmydesk.weebly.com/blog it's the 4/19/2020 post.
@@KJodiGear thank you! I’ll check it out!
What a beautiful color. Does the final product have that eggshell smell?
no, the final product smells like clove oil (it’s a great antibacterial/antifungal)
looking pretty good! any clue as to how lightfast it is? and i'm assuming the medium is (mostly) gum arabic?
My watercolor medium is gumbarabic, honey, glycerin, ox gall and clove oil. My recipe is on my blog, there is a link in one of the comments above. None of the botanical pigments are light-fast though Indigo does take longer to fade than many of the other blue or purple botanical pigments.