Painting of an olive-skinned white woman with short dark hair, heavily pregnant, wearing a stretchy black dress and gray disposable gloves, and seated in an office chair, next to a wooden cart with a paint palette on it, and in front of a drape with a white on black grid.

The ARTist, 2026, oil on canvas, 36x42in.
The second or third most rewarding product of my surrogacy journey.
#EarthPigments #AssistedReproductiveTechnology #GestationalCarrier #pregnant #OilPainting #SelfPortrait
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Transition (2025) - hand woven sheer linen panel with a transition from blues to reds in earth pigments by fiber artist Helen Bower Jones in the Serenity In Color feature show at The Hillsborough Gallery of Arts.

Transition - Linen and earth pigments hand woven hanging by Helen Bower Jones at HGA.

#art #fiberArt #woven #linen #EarthPigments

Horizon (2025) - mounted and framed linen aand cotton with earth pigments hand-woven fiber art textile by Helen Bower Jones. Natural white textured weaving grades to golden hue. Mounted on dark background in natural wood frame.

Horizon - mounted weaving by Helen Bower Jones linen and cotton with earth pigments.

#art #FiberArt #weaving #textile #linen #cotton #EarthPigments #artShow

River Blanda (2025) hand woven linen with earth pigments wall hanging fiber art by Helen Bower Jones in Serenity In Color feature show at The hillsborough Gallery of Arts

River Blanda by Helen Bower Jones in current feature show at HGA. Linen and earth pigments.

#art #fiberart #weaving #textileArt #linen #earthPigments #shadow #artShow #artyear

Detail of a Letterpress print made with woodtype and metal type. Print favours shapes of letters and type overlaps over readability

I’ve been learning how to make #letterpress ink from #earthpigments and laked botanicals. It’s taken some time! Now working on a concertina artist book with #woodtype and #metaltype. The earth pigments come from my garden and local beaches, & (so far) #lakepigments from onion skins and blackberries

Earth pigments from Vancouver Island - Shown are yellow clay, blue clay, red ochre, and green earth.

Hand-extracted pigments of Bamfield, British Columbia. One of 6 locations involved in my Earth Pigments of Vancouver Island Project. Just stunning, aren't they!

#bamfieldbc #yyjart #earthpigments #colourstudies #earthmaterials #geology #vancouverisland, #contemporarycraft #soil #clay #CanadianArt

Earth pigments and pigment making materials on a white desk surrounded by natural rocks and inspiring earth materials.

Hi, I'm new here. I make art with natural materials and earth pigments. New website is officially live andrealiesting.com and I'm so excited to share what I'm working on.

#earthpigments #soil #clay #textileartist #textileart #geology #vancouverisland #yyj #yyjarts #createeveryday #everydaycreative

Testing out the new yellow paint alongside some other earth pigment paints I've previously made
#geology #foraging #watercolorpainting #watercolour #earthpigments #homemade #paintmaking

Part 2 of making paint from a yellow rock I found
Can't wait for these to set so I test them out properly on paper in Part 3
#geology #foraging #watercolorpainting #watercolour #earthpigments #homemade #paintmaking

Found along the river near Mepal this morning. I have high hopes for this rock. It's going to make such a lovely yellow paint 😁
#Foraging #earthpigments #geology #paintmaking #watercolor #watercolour

A lovely bookmark and the rock the paint came from 😊
#earthpigments #watercolour #dice

Small rocks of different colors are arranged on a concrete step in the sun. These will be ground into pigments to make watercolor paints.

Art supplies

#earthpigments #watercolor #paintmaking #handmadewatercolors

In some ways working with #watercolor on black paper has some challenges or drawbacks. Watercolors are about transparency but opacity is needed on black. #earthpigments can be a good option and are what I used for this piece, for opacity and for symbolizing the earth. 1/2

A small tin box holding three mini pans of handmade watercolor paint sits on a wooden desktop next to a piece of paper with color swatches. Burgundy red, blue-green, and mustard yellow paints mix to make shades of green, brick red, purple, and brown.

Five minutes of swatching and mixing was enough for me to fall in love with this little trio of Oregon colors. I don't often play with mixing my handmade paints, but I see that I have some underexplored possibilities here!

#handmadewatercolors #earthpigments #watercolor #art

Recent locally foraged ochres, clays, and ground-up mica schist. No title yet. Suggestions?
#earthpigments
#localforaging

March 2025 local earth pigment palette #earthpigments #locallyforaged

Freedom. All locally foraged: walnut ink and paint made of ochres, clays, marine exoskeletons.
#earthpigments #botanicalinks #makeink #locallyforaged #handmadepaint #freedom #letgo

Had an awesome workshop with Wild Dot SG at NIE today on making paint with #earthpigments today!

Really insightful teachings on #paintmaking, #foraging and preserving nature whilst foraging for pigments outdoor.

Fun fact: Cooked rice starch works as a binder as well, like gum arabic!!

Playing with 18th-century-inspired repeating patterns and some new watercolors from The Art of Soil.

#watercolor #earthpigments

'Open Heart' started as a watercolor study for the oil painting I previously posted, but turned out to have a different vibe. The influence of the medium can be huge.
Natural handmade watercolors on handmade, recycled cotton paper.

#naturalwatercolors
#earthpigments
#symbolism
#watercolorart

Falling water

#photography #landscape #waterfall #ireland #outdoors #earthpigments #beautyinnature

Cancer pagurus (edible red crab)
First painting with the more refined watercolours I made from foraged pigments
#watercolour #foraging #earthpigments

‘Cleared hills’ 30x31cm #earthpigments #acrylics #landscape #australia #fineart www.monicarotgans.nl