I love hearing you talk about the colour exploration process and combined with the poetry and beautiful images it was a lovely way to quietly begin my Saturday morning. I think the newsletter is a great length. 😊✨
For as long as you write, I will read. I should have scraped the pine pollen from the car last month. It rained on me and didn't even know there was such a thing, and naturally, you answer that question.
Every Friday is the perfect way to ease our minds into another world.
I find distilled water without minerals (snowmelt or rainwater too!) works better with natural colours, also the salt in the contact lens solution fixes more delicate colours and there is some kind of binder (not sure what?) that holds pigment particles in suspension. I have been using contact lens solution as a base for a long time even before I was making ink I would sometimes grind up old hardened tubes of gouache and add them to saline solution which seemed to break them down in just the right way. Instincts plus chemistry plus play.
I live beside McGill University and when the students move out, they leave incredible amounts behind. Contact solution is now on my list of items to forage from the abandoned.
Fascinating, I like the way your brain works
Your color content is bite-sized poetry that can easily be digested, looking forward to hear your color stories.
I love hearing you talk about the colour exploration process and combined with the poetry and beautiful images it was a lovely way to quietly begin my Saturday morning. I think the newsletter is a great length. 😊✨
I will never again curse the pollen covering my car windows in spring.
For as long as you write, I will read. I should have scraped the pine pollen from the car last month. It rained on me and didn't even know there was such a thing, and naturally, you answer that question.
Every Friday is the perfect way to ease our minds into another world.
Contact lens solution?! That's far out. What does it do to the pollen?
I find distilled water without minerals (snowmelt or rainwater too!) works better with natural colours, also the salt in the contact lens solution fixes more delicate colours and there is some kind of binder (not sure what?) that holds pigment particles in suspension. I have been using contact lens solution as a base for a long time even before I was making ink I would sometimes grind up old hardened tubes of gouache and add them to saline solution which seemed to break them down in just the right way. Instincts plus chemistry plus play.
I live beside McGill University and when the students move out, they leave incredible amounts behind. Contact solution is now on my list of items to forage from the abandoned.