Online Course on Making Paint: From Rock to Art

Are you ready for an incredible journey? Learning how to make paint is more than a means to an end with a pan or tube of paint. It’s incredibly eye-opening to find out just how early artists made paints so that they could then make their art. This online course on making paint will forever alter your perception of ordinary ground and rocks.

Downloads (Registration not required):

1. Materials Supply List
2. Recipe for Watercolor Media

Optional to order from me:
1. Paint Making Kit
2. Watercolor media
3. Powdered Gum Arabic
4. Wild Ozark rocks
5. Wild Ozark pigments

You are totally free to source your own materials and use alternatives/substitutes in whatever creative ways you come up with! The course is work-at-your-own pace, so no rush.

Contact information:

Madison Woods
text: (479) 409-3429
email: madison@wildozark.com

or leave a comment on any of the workshop pages, including this one.

Here’s What the Course Covers

Foraging for rocks
Processing rock to powder
- Try crushing the rock found in intro video to see how it’ll work for paint
Making watercolor binder
Making watercolor paint from raw crushed rock (can’t make good oil paint this way)
- cleanup
Washing the pigment, settling, drying, storing
Making watercolor paint from fine washed powder, pouring into pans
Making oil paint from fine washed powder, putting in tubes
- Cleanup without harsh solvents

How the Course Works

Order the course at my online shop
Download your introduction package that contains the password so you can access the videos
Procure your supplies (or watch all the way through first to get an understanding of why the supplies are suggested)
Email me anytime at all with questions. I promise to answer in a timely manner. Sometimes right away, but sometimes it might take me until the next day.

Schedule a 30 minute Zoom call with me (free) if you need to ‘show’ me something or just are more comfortable asking questions that way. Sometimes I can do these at the drop of a hat, but more often it’ll be at least a few hours and depending on my schedule it could be a few days. It just depends on what life is throwing at that moment.
You can also always leave a comment here on this page to ask a question, or inside the workshop on those pages.