Making paint from pink and red pigments

A photo from a paint making workshop. Blue, yellow and red watercolour paint is being made from pure ultramarine and ochre pigments

Lake pigments are made from dyes. The photo shows small jars filled with multicoloured lake pigments

The image is split screen. The top shows some jars containing pigments which are made from minerals or are synthetic products which are chemically analogous to minerals. The lower part of the image shows brightly coloured mineral specimens

This Saturday, 22 March 2025 is World Pigment Day! Founded by myself and Jo Volley @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social we are now 7 years old. Follow us on instagram #worldpigmentday

Showing some ‘Pollen paintings’ in ‘This Year's Model: Part I’ @studio1.1_london show on until 2 February, open Thursday-Sunday 12-5 www.studio1-1.co.uk/this-years-m...
#painting #contemporaryart #exhibition #london

HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Wishing you Happiness, Love and Peace at Christmas and in the New Year, Ruth X

Yaks grazing near Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan, September 2024

Instead of sending Christmas cards I am donating money to MAP - Medical Aid for Palestinians for their vital work in Gaza, Palestine and Lebanon 🕊️

Against the Illusion of Separateness: Pablo Neruda’s Beautiful and Humanistic Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech “There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to rea…

"Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope. But there is no such thing as a lone struggle, no such thing as a lone hope."

On this day in 1971, Neruda delivered his magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech

It's the last week of term, the timing could hardly be worse, but I am *so* looking forward to be taking part in the Silk Roads conference at the British Museum later this week. Tickets here: www.britishmuseum.org/events/silk-...

Tubes of used oil paint on messy painter’s table - image for A Geography of Colour podcast

First series of my podcast ‘A Geography of Colour’ - talking with a painter each month about their relationship with colour - as material, physical, emotional, sensory, symbolic & memory podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... #art #podcast #colour #color #paint #painting

Do: Sol LeWitt’s Electrifying Letter of Advice on Self-Doubt, Overcoming Creative Block, and Being an Artist “You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.”

This magnificent letter from one artist to another remains the best advice you'll ever get on self-doubt in creative or entrepreneurial work

Showing ‘Dance Tent’ at CAS Winter Exhibition at the Minories, Colchester, show
continues until 22 December Thursday - Sunday 10-4. It also includes a room of new acquisitions to the Permanent Collection.

Today is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Show your
support! The struggle is long, but the resilience of the Palestinian people continues to inspire us. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free = In solidarity ...
#freepalestine #stopthegenocide

Amazing autumn trip to the ochre fields in Provence, walking around Rousillon and Rustrel. Visited the Ecomusee de l'ocre & Bruoux Ochre Mines, vast expanses of every shade of ochre, a painter’s paradise!

#ochre #pigment #paint #roussillon #rustrel