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Manuscripts: Extracting Pigments from Rocks and Plants
Learn how to create your own natural paints!
The earth is the source of the pigments used in the great paintings of the past: extracting pigments and making them into paint was a part of any artist's practice This workshop will introduce you to this traditional skill, transforming rocks (a local stone and a semi-precious rock such as Chrysocolla) and plants (Persian berry or Madder) into beautiful watercolour, tempera and oil paint.
Students attending the course should comfortable
The earth is the source of the pigments used in the great paintings of the past: extracting pigments and making them into paint was a part of any artist's practice This workshop will introduce you to this traditional skill, transforming rocks (a local stone and a semi-precious rock such as Chrysocolla) and plants (Persian berry or Madder) into beautiful watercolour, tempera and oil paint.
Students attending the course should comfortable
10.00-16.00
£45.00
£45.00
Heritage Skills Centre, Lincoln Castle, Castle Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN1 3AA
Sun 23 Jul 2017
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