Let me tell you something about goldenrod. It’s amazing! I put it in a pot, added a bit of water and some alum, and: puff! YELLOW I’m doing shell-paint at the moment and later it will be pigments again. Haven’t decided about which method to use but it looks promising. More promising than the sunflowers […]
By the way …
… that’s the result of the sunflower paint experiment: It’s a pale, soft yellow, nearly white. I will try to make some watercolour, but I’m not optimistic about the outcome
Not really mortar and pestle
… but pestle and a glass slab. I’ve made a rule out of using the things I already have and not buying anything new. So far it’s working fine. Here you can see what’s become of the geranium-tomato sauce: I grind it with said slab and pestle, making fine pigments which are alarmingly whitish. But […]
That’s why I love ‚Altweibersommer‘
It makes me do things. Not only want-to but actually do-do. Last weekend, sitting under a linden tree, I started collecting the seed vessels and now I’m going to stick pins into them to be able to thread them on a string later. I’m in jewellery mode again. And yesterday I went to not only […]
Like it’s a piece of Aglarond
Do you see this? The geranium sap shell (gss) is all crystal like a pretty little geode. I took a lot of pictures, and you have to watch them ALL! Do you know what’s great? It dissolves really easy in water. Making it very easy to soak up paint with a brush and … well […]
The squirrel gene
Guess what! I’m still collecting flowers (and other stuff) for further experiments.
Sunflowers
A bunch of sunflowers. The petals of a bunch of sunflowers in a pot. The petals of a bunch of sunflowers with water and alum in a pot cooking slowly. The petals of a bunch of sunflowers with water and alum in a pot cooking slowly, giving only marginal colour. The petals of a bunch […]
Geranium pt. 3
Did I mention me beeing impatient!?! The geranium stuff is still not finished. As you can see, it dwindled, but … … still too much water. So I brought it againt to the boil and led it reduce a bit. (As much as I dared) Now it sits in a smal glass bowl looking like […]
coming home
After a weekend of beeing away from reality, having fun, making plans and not beeing trown out of the ICE-train, I’ve returned home to find my geranium shell – which was well-filled when I left – looking like this: It’s hardly surprising, considering that the plant sap consists of 99,9% water … Neither it’s completely […]
Geranium
Fortune favoered me with some spare time last weekend. And so – with my boyfriend busying himself with bike preparations – I took my chances and a box of dried geranium flowers and started another attempt at producing paint. As usual the flowers were cooked in an alum solution. The crystals disolved rather quickly in […]