Starting a thread about handmade paints, as I know there is a lot of interest in these!
Handmade paints from Bristle Brush Paints @bristlebrushpaints @islamicillumination
What a treat… they look like dessert!
Each paint individually wrapped and such a pleasure to open. Particularly looking forward to the green earth!
Looks like a great collection!
I love Esra's paints :) I've still not used mine yet - they feel too nice to use, haha. I'm also new to painting Nadia and I've been learning about colours. They're fascinating! I can recommend the books:
- Chromatopia, David Coles
- The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair
- The Alchemy of Paint, Spike Bucklow
I've started foraging and grinding down earth and rocks to experiment with. Just for swatches, not for painting with as I have no clue! They look yummy though :)
Sounds like you have a lot of experience with natural dyes @Mary Yaeger - what a fabulous mental archive to have! I looked up sublimation crayons as that's right up my street, they sound... sublime ;-) Yes, I know what you mean, colour is definitely like food!
Yes, I'm completely flabberwhelmed by the choices out there ;-) ok merriwhelmed works for me. It's the fact that paints are dry then liquid then dry that is still a kind of magic for me, as it has been since childhood. Just the idea that you've left a mark behind you in the world. 'To paint is to remember' - and also a sign that you were there, you existed. She has some other colours now, you can check her site @bristlebrushpaints as she's always got new colours up her sleeve. I look forward to trying them too!
Handmade paints! Aaaah! They should invent a word that means overwhelm but with a positive connotation. (Anticiwhelm? Prowhelm? Merriwhelm?) As in, there's just SO MUCH cool stuff to study and try out, and it's exciting. That's how I feel about handmade paints! Having pretty much only drawn my whole life, I'm just trying to get my basic bearings with gouache and watercolor. But I really, really look forward to checking out the handmades and trying my own hand at it too! Great pic, btw.