Very interesting. Love watching 😊❤

Do you offer teaching residencies? I’d fly out from our little island off the bottom of Australia just to learn everything!! 😍 also how do you code the stamping of your pigment sticks? Is there a standard to follow or just whatever makes sense to you?

I love your experiments so much! Thanks for Sharing! ✨

Have you read Mary Virginia Orna's book on pigments? Impressive lady.

Cool video.. would love to see you swatching and how pigments behave while wet and it behaves when applying different effects to it like charging and cauliflower effects

WOW!!! very interesting.... Thanks for sharing with us!

Thanks so much for sharing this. I learn something new each time I watch your videos.❤ 🙏

Seriously cool.

I love your circle lightfast swatches. It’s so much easier to see the difference in fading when it’s surrounded by color, instead of a side-by-side half-faded stripe of color.

I instantly subscribed when I saw you start mulling the sand. This is great content! Also, when you mentioned the chalkiness of the paints I thought they would make nice gouache.

So cool

Love the process! Just saw the video while doing research for one of my own! Great channel! 😁

Excellent! I create soft pastels in a similar way. QUESTION: why remove the magnetite? (thanks)

how interesting!! it was genuinely so surprising to see such a rich brown color emerge from sand!

This is magical to watch, thanks for putting it up as well as nice reminder about the use of medium

Simply Gorgeous. You will make many artists happy with this box. 🤩

Thank you for sharing this - I have a favourite beach I'd like to try this with so am very appreciate for all the tips!

where aand how do I get the stones/minerals and how do I start making my own please?

Do you sell your watercolors? I love the earthy colors. 😍 Thank you for sharing your expertise with us😊

What a fabulous little treasure box 🫶🏼

Absolutely gorgeous! I hope that you've found pigment and paint making to be such a joy!

Hi wonderful tutorial. Where do you buy the small glass paint jars with metal lids?

How do you differentiate what rocks are lightfast and not? Or any other natural mediums? TIA

Candle soot goes way back in tradition and is an excellent black.. Also serious question: if you are burning something anyway, what is wrong with just making charcoal?

The darkest pigment of black you can achieve by doing lamp black method

This is an awesome video! Definitely need to try making my own pigment sometime, this looks like a fun activity to try with my daughter. Thanks for sharing

Your videos deserve more views Just informative and overall entertaining

So pretty a design when your using the glass thing with "Lake" on the glass, if could frame that on a wall. Use dyes for wool and cotton, but read if laked, wont work on cotton later. Am researching what else besides alum works for laking, and you use calcium carb(chalk), but read of bismuth (thought of buying it at dollarstore). If you changed that pH, would your pigment colors have changed? So many interesting things you show !!

Wow, I need this blue in my life!😊It's so beautiful! Thank for this great tutorial. ⭐

Hi Kjodi. I'm new subscriber and I'm glad I found you. I love the content of yr videos. I make sometimes my own paint with pigments I buy, easy for me😊. But seeing the all process is fascinating. I am wonder if I could do something with all the seashells I collected... Great video and thank you for sharing.🙏

I was going to ask you to teach the girls and I how to do this, and now I see you’ve made these lovely videos!!! Thank you for sharing!! ✨🙏🏼✨

I think it's called the pith?

Sorry if you know this, but: Oil pastels are made with a non-drying oil, not with the drying oils used to make oil paint. Your 'pastels' are actually oil sticks, they will either dry hard, or will develop a thin film that needs to be repeatedly scraped off in order to use. To make true oil pastels, you'll need a different oil -- originally coconut oil was used, but nowadays they're made with mineral oil. You could technically use a variety of vegetable oils, but you have to watch they don't go rancid or cause damage to the paper. The only other ones I'd try, personally, would be castor oil or jojoba oil.

I think i finally understand this process! Thank you….

I rather buy than make my own

Very interesting. I learned a great deal from your video.

the earth pigments or ochres we forage are supposed to last long, but have you experienced some of them being unstable as well, thank you.

Great tutorial!

I really appreciate your channel, I was wondering if dirty rocks I find near my building need a soap wash, actually I did wash them with dr bronners Sal suds, will it affect the eventual paint?

Have you considered repeating this with different parts of bone? It may be that the more spongy/marrow-y parts of bone give it a brown color due to them being used to replenish red blood cells. Maybe attempt with shoulderblades or skulls instead of femurs and ribs? Bones that are rigid in the body have less spongy tissue and maybe will result in a different color in the end. I'm not an expert though, just a hunch. Good luck! :)

While it's not a perfect black, i'd say it's not a bad pigment on its own.

I'm glad to see that your tests corroborate exactly what I've found. It's definitely due to a reaction with oxygen in air, since my tubed paint, both by Daniel Smith and my own handmade paints, look like your paint in the jar - a very attractive green not at all brownish yellow tinged, but rather on the cool side of the spectrum. Upon exposure to air, they look like your swatch on the left after a day or two. It definitely didn't take a year.

You deserve more subscribers🎉

What composition is the water color medium? I love finding natural pigments. I once crushed ridge gourd peels into a beautiful green sap, but the color turned red and fade with time. the pigment got sedimented and dried up too easily. can you help?

Doesn't matter how many times I proofread, there's always a typo! Stonger = stronger. 😁

Where did you get your sieves

love that raw sienna and the pinkcolor!

That's amazing! Might it be easier to sharpen them with a box knife? A lot of artists sharpen their pastel pencils that way...

Amazing