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.
Notice: I’m still setting up the course but it’ll be ready soon! This message will be gone when I’m done.
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 Info & Links to Lessons
- 1) Tools of the Trade
- 2) Foraging for Rocks
- 3) Smashing Rocks
- 4) More Smashing & Grinding Rocks
- 5) Making Watercolor Binder
- 6) Making a Rough Watercolor Paint
- 7) Washing/Drying/Storing Pigment
- 8) Making a Smooth Watercolor
- 9) Making an Oil Paint
- 10) Summary, FAQ, Q & A
Here’s What the Course Covers
- Foraging for rocks- where I find them, what kinds of rocks I use, how to figure out which are good to use
- Processing rock to powder- breaking and grinding, lots of physical work in this step
- Making watercolor binder- this is the ‘glue’ that holds your watercolor paint on the page
- Making watercolor paint from raw crushed rock (can’t make good oil paint this way, but makes a textured watercolor)
- Washing the pigment, settling, drying, storing – keeping extra on hand makes future paint-making easier
- 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.
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