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From Plant to Pigment
How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints
Brief Description
A manual full of recipes for artists to create their own pigments, paints, and pastels from botanical sources. Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator known for her explorations of handmade, homegrown pigments. In From Plant to Pigment, she invites us into her studio, sharing the...
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Description
A manual full of recipes for artists to create their own pigments, paints, and pastels from botanical sources.
Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator known for her explorations of handmade, homegrown pigments. In From Plant to Pigment, she invites us into her studio, sharing the ways she has divested her practice of non-renewable synthetics in favour of the craft of handmade, homegrown, local colour.
Learn the fundamental technique of how to make a lake pigment, transforming botanical dye into lasting, vivid pigment. This book will give you the tools to make the most vibrant natural colours that are perfect for your own artistic endeavours.
Sections include:
Botanical sources (cultivating, foraging, harvesting and storing dye plants).
The studio larder (essential equipment and ingredients).
Lake pigments (including Natalie's master lake pigment recipe).
Other plant pigments
Artists' materials (using your botanical pigments to make an array of artists' materials).
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781837760671
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 16 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Skittledog
Illustration: 200 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 176.0mm
Height: 224.0mm
Weight: 640g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Natalie Stopka is a leading practitioner and artistic researcher of lake pigments, and has been sharing her expertise and love of plant colourants with students for over a decade. Raised on the south coast of Massachusetts, she earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the University of New Mexico. She now lives in New York State.
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