Art Materials Advisor: The Enduring Legacy of French Ochres

[@annaguettabi3974]

So wonderful and very interesting! Each time I see the clays of North Carolina, I wonder what ochers can be made with it. It’s not even a quarry, it lies super-close under top-soil. So red, with colors ranging all the way to raspberry-like reds.

[@RublevColours]

It is possible you can make pigment from this soil. We have an article on how to do so: www.naturalpigments.com/artist-materials/earth-pigments

[@robinmorgan2713]

Always so grateful for your knowledge, inspiration and unrelenting pursuit of excellence in our art materials, sources and development, use, history, myths!

[@rhondaadams4013]

About 1 hour north of where I live the dirt is red, in Louisiana. Is that dirt from which I could extract an ocre?

[@RublevColours]

It is possible that it is an ochre, as ochres are found throughout the planet.