Painting with natural dyes

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "Comment PAINT & I’ll send you ✨free✨ detailed tutorials for making lake pigments & shelf-stable watercolors with plants.🫶🏼🌿 This color was made from onion skins and marigolds that had both been previously used for dyeing fabric. After dyeing, I saved the plant material for a second sunny color extraction. ☀️ To make shelf-stable plant colored watercolors, a natural dye must be turned into an insoluble pigment. 🌈 The process involves…

In this blog post I’ll show you how to quickly and simply extract dye from coreopsis flowers using hot water. This makes a beautiful dye that can be used like watercolour paint. Then we’ll play with lemon juice and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) to make a wider range of colours. The paint only takes...

Learn how to make natural plant-based watercolor paint for children. Step-by-step process and fun activity for the whole family.

In her new Book of Earth, published by Abrams, Heidi Gustafson takes us on a journey through rare pigments and their landscapes.

We had so much fun making, painting, and SMELLING these spice paints!

Learn how to make natural dye paint with Katie Berman.

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "👉🏼Comment FLOWER & I’ll send you a list of my Favorite flowers for botanical printing 🌼✨ The truth is, there really are no fast tricks when it comes to natural dyeing. It’s a nuanced process that involves a lot of thought and patience. It takes practice to figure out how to get fantastic prints. 👉🏼 That’s why I’m sharing some of my favorite tips with you today! 🩵 Eco printing is a natural dye method that uses pressure and heat to…

Create Custom Watercolor Fabrics, by Alyson Provax.

I’ve been making an exciting foray into the world of natural paints and inks. It’s not so different from natural dyeing really. You can use the same dye plants but just create a really strong dye b…