Soil Based Pigments

Just in time for Earth Day 🌎 ✨ 🌄

I'm so excited that my soil based watercolors from soil scientist Karen Vaughan's the Art of Soil arrived in Thursday's mail!, beautifully packed in compostable bags and a wee cardboard box, with paper shred padding!

'You are about to paint with soil'

This Sea to Land ecosystem pan free set includes the Atlantic Coast, Coastal and Roots collections (color combinations inspired by place - not gathered from protected ecosystems!)

I made my first color swatch, and look forward to getting to know these hand made paints! I have a little extra palette to hold some of them - and will use a mint tin for the rest!

Color swatch

We use simple materials in most of our coaching sessions and circles, to make creativity more accessible. I got a little watercolor set from our NW Daniel Smith company last year, and use Neocolor 2 crayons, oil pastels and Inktense pencils as well, both personally and with groups. I am excited to try out this new pallet!

Happy Earth day!! 🌎 🌄

We'll be playing with pigments from our environment and spice shelf in our Red Thread circle Thursday April 28, 2-3:30 PM PDT - Earth based colors

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