Tag: handmade watercolors
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Paint-making in Little Rock | Workshop
I’m excited to be holding a workshop at the Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock next month. Living Craft Workshop in Little Rock 10 am to 3 pm200 E. Third St., Little Rock, Arkansas, USPhone: 1-501-324-9351 | Fax: 1-501-324-9345 | email: info@historicarkansas.org Here’s where you can sign up: https://www.arkansasheritage.com/events/2024/04/13/default-calendar/living-craft-workshop-watercolor-paint-from-foraged-rocks
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Painting of a Farm | Progression Page
Painting of a farm. It was a special gift to the seller from my daughter realtor. The owner hated to have to sell his family land.
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Paint Making Tools of the Trade
These are some of the items and tools I use for making paint.
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A Stable Blue from Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis)
One day I smashed a flower petal from the Asiatic dayflower between my thumb and forefinger. It’s a small plant that grows sparsely in the shady, moist areas along the driveway. While it’s not native to the Ozarks, it is naturalized and I won’t mind using it to make a paint and calling it an…
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Presenting … A Rainbow of Ozark Pigments
Skip right to the discussion for your workshop: email me at madison@wildozark.com. I’ll bring my stash of Ozark pigments and rocks, or we can go foraging on site at your location. Plus, I’ll bring all the materials needed to make art with local colors! I’m gathering my supplies and gearing up to do workshops featuring…
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Blood of the Ozarks- a new Paleo Paints Driftwood Palette
Blood of the Ozarks no. 1, The first of the fall Driftwood Palette collections at Wild Ozark will be available at the Heart of Rogers show on Oct. 18.
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Paint-making Tips and Tools: Tiny Jars
These tiny jars make it easy to store your handmade watercolor paints in the refrigerator in between pours. Click through to see why.
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Shades of Shale
Black shale is a common rock in our creeks and streams. The rocks are brittle and easy to crumble, and make a dark gray rub. A great candidate for making some paint.
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Stacked Rocks Still Life Painting- the Process
The Process Story of “Ozark Rocks and Leaf” This painting started out plein air. The grandkids were visiting and wanted to go splash around at Felkins creek. While they played, I began painting these stacked rocks with a sycamore leaf. When it was time to leave, I wasn’t finished yet, so I snapped some photos…
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Pottery Shard
A few weeks ago during my morning walk, I found an old pottery shard. So I put it in my pocket and finished my walk. It looked like it might make a nice paint, but I debated over whether or not to crush it. The shard, or sherd, as the term is known in archaeological…
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Ozark Birds of Prey : Red-shouldered Hawk
Just finished this red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus). The original is SOLD. Prints are available. Progression Pics: Art in Progress I post all of the steps as I’m doing it at Instagram, so if you want to follow along in real time, follow me there or on FB. Sometimes it’s a good bit later when I…
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Wild Waterfall Shale
This rock lives near the waterfall and because of the various hues of colors I saw in it, became one of my first few sets of paints. I called it “Waterfall Shale”. I think it’s really slate, though.
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Handmade, Wild-crafted Paleo Paints Mini Cubes
Paleo Paints Mini’s are mini cubes of watercolor paints using Ozark pigments. Each one is approximately 3/8 inch cubes. They’re wild-crafted and handmade. Smaller than a standard half-pan but far larger than a sample dot, these are perfect for creating watercolor travel sets. The Colors The mini cubes come in all of the colors I…
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Pink Tequila
Pink Tequila comes from a pink sandstone, but the resulting paint or pigment color isn’t pink at all. Or at least, not very much. It’s closer to orange, but there is a slight pink tinge to the orange. This one, like so many others have the past year, surprised me. As a stone, it looks…
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“I make paint from rocks…” A typical encounter.
Click HERE to go directly to my online gallery. All of the work you’ll see there uses paint made from rocks. Click HERE if you want to see Paleo Paints at Etsy. And HERE for workshops on making them. Talking about Paint from Rocks When people see my artwork, they usually don’t realize the colors…
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My Interview with Jacqueline Froelich of KUAF (91.3 FM)
Jacqueline Froelich of KUAF came out to Wild Ozark to interview me about the Paleo Paints. Here’s the link so you can listen 🙂
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Winter Solstice 2018, New Year, and the Color Black
Full Moon and Meteor Shower at Winter Solstice 2018 Winter solstice 2018 in Northern Hemisphere will be at 4:23 PM on Friday, December 21. This is the longest night of the year, and although I typically think of it as a dark night, it won’t be this year. With a full moon and meteor shower going…
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Black. The Messiest Color Start to Finish.
Sometimes I’m overzealous with the black. More honestly put, I am almost always too generous with the black. I put more on than I need and so end up taking a lot of it right back off. Why I love Black And that highlights one of the great things about my black handmade watercolor paint.…
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Catching Up & Gearing Up for More Paint-Making and Paintings
For the past couple of months I’ve been busy with festival-going and getting ready for more festival-going for the Burnt Kettle Syrup. Then for the past couple of weeks, I’ve been enjoying time with Rob (Mr. Wild Ozark/Burnt Kettle). Paint-making and painting has been on the sidelines for a while. But it’s time to get…
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Plant Pigments – Experimenting and Searching for Green
Generally I don’t use the plant pigments because they’re fugitive, meaning they fade over time. Sometimes they completely disappear. However, I’ve found two sources that actually intensify with exposure to light (full sunshine) and so I am experimenting with extracting the pigments from them. The Sources of my Plant Pigments Sassafras makes a nice yellow…
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Making Paint from Pink Sandstone of the Ozarks
I’ve been busy as a bee lately making more and more paint. Even though this week my intention was to focus solely on getting ready for upcoming shows and festivals, the lure of a large chunk of pink sandstone seduced me. I couldn’t help it, and I gave in to make more paint. Collection No.…
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Brown Earth Pigment for my Handmade Watercolor Palette
My son found a rock alongside the driveway, near the creek. He kept it to give me since he knows I’ve been smashing a lot of rocks lately. This one seemed like it would be a great rock to make some of my earth pigments and handmade watercolors. It was mostly black, with some brown.…
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The Painting of a Pelican
This painting of a Louisiana Brown Pelican was based mostly on a photo by Shelby Townsend , but I liked the feet on another from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, so modified them to drape over the edge of the post. The Model for my Subject Here’s Shelby’s story about the day he took the photo.…
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A Call for Rocks and a New Page
Saturday I went down to Felkins creek which is near the end of our driveway. It’s not that I needed more rocks. I just wanted to see what the recent rains might have turned up. So I should probably have not gone looking. I only needed one rock. Or one color of rock. And…