It’s time for me to tell you what I did with all the apple-bark-paint-sites I was working on …
First for the sap.
You may remember this yellowish looks-like-egg-paint glas?
First of all I actually made some „Glue-size“ from it. I took a small strip of white linen and soaked it in the sap. After letting it go dry I repeated the process. And again. And …
I don’t remember exactly how often I did this, but I think it was about five times …
Now it looks this:
If soaked in water the paint should liquidate and be paintable againt. So much for theory, the practice is jet to come …
After this process there was still a lot of sap to go, so I poured it in another shell to let it go dry.
This is the sappy-sap,
and this ist the dried-sap.
It’s still very easy dissolvable and when painted still looks like this:
Next time wil be about the pigments.