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

and https://www.earthpigments.com/