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I use the lake pigment method to make most of my paints, though it's a little different for blueberries — I soak them in isopropyl instead of water to make dye.

After that I use an acid/base reaction to precipitate the colour out of solution, let it dry, pulverize the resulting hard cake of pigment, and mix with glycerine, honey, gum arabic solution and clove oil to make watercolour paint I dry in pans.

Yes, my muller is a glass butt plug and my pallette is a microwave platter. I'm industrious, not rich.

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[-] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Very pleasant photograph :)

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you. It's quite relaxing to grind the paint, almost like one of those desk top sand gardens.

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