Enjoyed your films tremendously, mostly because its a family lifestyle/activity , as it should be, and also your adventures with pigments made me feel as though i had a partner in same! I just have to know, where did you find the marvelous morter and pestle for your red louis grind, i SF? I’m still smashing rocks with a hammer on my concrete steps out the back door! of course once its fine enough i can go to a tiny M&P the the mueller/glass table. Green is a hard pigment to find in my area of NW Montana and blue almost imposable in any quantity. I , like you grow the woad! I am still in hunt of blue ocher (vivianite). I once found the finest corral colored pigment in an ant hill, just had to float out the ant pieces and pine needles, but it was a perfect texture!
Thank you for your kind words, Karla. The wonderful bowl that I’m using to grind the red pigment is thousands of years old and was recovered by a local retired archaeologist. As I’m sure you can imagine, it was a magical experience to use …
If you want to read a bit more about the experience, that video is featured in a article on this website. You can find it here: www.redearthicons.com/luiseno-red
Enjoyed your films tremendously, mostly because its a family lifestyle/activity , as it should be, and also your adventures with pigments made me feel as though i had a partner in same! I just have to know, where did you find the marvelous morter and pestle for your red louis grind, i SF? I’m still smashing rocks with a hammer on my concrete steps out the back door! of course once its fine enough i can go to a tiny M&P the the mueller/glass table. Green is a hard pigment to find in my area of NW Montana and blue almost imposable in any quantity. I , like you grow the woad! I am still in hunt of blue ocher (vivianite). I once found the finest corral colored pigment in an ant hill, just had to float out the ant pieces and pine needles, but it was a perfect texture!
thanks , keep up the search!
karla
Thank you for your kind words, Karla. The wonderful bowl that I’m using to grind the red pigment is thousands of years old and was recovered by a local retired archaeologist. As I’m sure you can imagine, it was a magical experience to use …
If you want to read a bit more about the experience, that video is featured in a article on this website. You can find it here: www.redearthicons.com/luiseno-red