Colors of the Earth Materials List

Earth Pigments, Clays, and/or Ochers

Fabric: cotton, linen, or silk

Paper:

• heavy papers such as water color paper, mixed media papers
• lighter weight papers such as rice paper
• Khadi paper from India - NOT REQUIRED however it takes earth pigments like no other paper out there!
• found papers such as old envelopes, brown paper bags, etc.

Other Mark Making Mediums:

• charcoal or vine charcoal
• white charcoal, pastel, and/or conte
• gutta resist in clear, black, or white
• pencil

Soy milk or soy beans for making soy milk

Earth Pigments, Ochers, and Clay

The only ochers and pigments required for this class are:

• A yellow ocher of some type, and contain yellow ocher and/or clay
• An umber either Burnt or Raw (i.e., if you go with burnt umber then purchase raw umber to go with)
• A sienna eitherBurnt or Raw (i.e., if you a raw sienna then purchase the burnt sienna to go with)
• A red ocher or purple ocher
• Mayan Blue and/or Prussian Blue are suggestions NOT REQUIRED.

I purchase my earth pigments, ochre's, and clays, from www.naturalpigments.com (they are based in the US).