LONDON PIGMENT
Workshops with Lucy
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This listing is for a 1.5 hour practical workshop with Lucy in her studio in East London.
Learn how to process earth pigments, create pigments from plants or make hand-made inks. Once this workshop has been purchased please email Lucy so that she can discuss a bespoke workshop option, based on the offering below:
London Pigment Introduction Workshop
Making sustainable pigments, inks and paint
- Introduction to Lucy's work as artist-pigment maker
- Waste stream pigments
- Introduction to colourants- pigments, dyes and making paint
- Paint making workshop (watercolour or oil paint etc) & filling out especially designed colour charts
Lake making workshop
- Short introduction to Lucy's work as artist-pigment maker
- Introduction to colourants- pigments, dyes and making paint
- Basic chemistry behind the laking process
- Practical pigment making demonstration, paint testing & filling out especially designed colour charts
Botanical Ink making workshop from locally collected materials
- Short introduction to her work as artist-pigment maker
- Introduction to colourants- pigments, dyes and making paint
- Run through of raw materials used for botanical ink making & how to extract dye
- Ink making processes that include using the following materials; oak galls, brazil wood, madder, walnuts, earth pigments and verdigris
- Practical ink making demonstration, ink testing & filling out especially designed colour charts
Intermediate pigment & Paint Making Workshop
- Short introduction to her work as artist-pigment maker
- In depth look at the properties of different pigments (concentrating on pigments I make: local/nationally collected iron oxide pigments, verdigris, lake pigments, carbon black pigments, waste stream pigments), binders & fillers and how they affect the resulting paint handling and dried paint film
- practical pigment making demonstration, paint testing & filling out especially designed colour charts
Earth Colours of Britain
- Short introduction to her work as artist-pigment maker
- In dept look at the earth colours I have collected, their provenance, characteristics and geological make up.
- Explanation of how I process earth colours
- Paint making workshop (watercolour or oil paint etc) using some of the pigments mentioned & filling out especially designed colour charts
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