HOW TO MAKE ART PASTELS WITH NATURAL DYES & EARTH PIGMENTS | DIY PASTEL RECIPE | NATURAL PIGMENT

[@anettedouglasdotter]

Thank you for this brilliant video - I will definetely give this a go! 👍 Best of luck with your baby too! ⭐️ Greetings from Sweden! 🇸🇪

[@0000willhill]

This video was so relaxing I don’t know why, thank you!!

[@mariannehovad798]

I experimented with making pastels. first sample had chalk powder, pigment and a little bit too much gum arabic (didn't water down the binder enough) and 2 drops of honey - it turned out hard due to gum arabic hardening it but still usable when wet for watercolour painting. tried it again, this time I tried to get some clues from commercial pastel makers on how to make soft highly pigmented ones like sennelier and one said they do not use chalk and its just binder and pigment so I used about 1 and 1/2 table spoon of pigment, about a tablespoon of the 1 to 20 ratio of liquid gum arabic that had about 5% preservative in it and 2 drops of honey on the first sample and double that on the second. the first was hard as rock again but the one with double the honey actually worked but it could have been softer and smoother so next time I'll try a little less gum arabic and more honey. the honey prevents the pastel drying out completely and I think a bit of glycerin might help with flow just like it does with watercolour and gauche paints. I'll keep on experimenting

[@samanthanicholson9015]

The mix you used hardens for using as water color I don't know about her adding soap but I hadn't made pastels to make as a crayon type. I follow the same for making oil paint and melting wax then mold until set.

[@murph8411]

@@samanthanicholson9015I always use gum tracaganth as a binder. The dilution depends on the pigment and it takes a lot of note taking along with trial and error to get the correct mixture. I’ve tried a small amount of everything from pumice, kaolin, precipitated calcium carbonate to talc to see how they react. I usually use very little apart from the gum, water and pigment and just try other additives to see if I can produce a smoother or more textured pastel. I’ve never added soap. I also weigh my ingredients rather than measure the volume of them. When I start I make an amount of the almost pure pigment and then split this into smaller amounts so I can add titanium white to one half giving me paler pastels which can be cut again given even paler versions. I do the same with blacks added so I can get darker pastels. This gives me a range of tints for each colour.

[@rachelmadrone3168]

So excited to find your channel! Your tutorials are so valuable

[@plansandprocrastination]

Here's to a safe and joyous birth! Thank you for sharing with us along this journey....I look forward to hearing from you again after you've taken some well deserved family time.

[@thebarefootdyer]

Thank you so much!! I actually didn’t get around to posting this video until after baby had arrived. We’re both healthy and safe. 💛

[@plansandprocrastination]

@@thebarefootdyer whoot!!! congratulations! you are a beautiful mom :)

[@thebarefootdyer]

@@plansandprocrastination Thank you so much!!

[@neabezshen3197]

I typically just add binder because I use calcium carbonate to lake the pigment. Great video. Keep doing what makes you happy.

[@limonay6729]

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[@UMBUBA]

Thank you for the great video. I’m about to make my own pastels but I decided to use gum tragacanth. I was wondering if I could add a drop of linseed oil into my mix instead of using soap shavings?

[@bobbyjoseph7788]

Wish you a healthy baby and smooth delivery amen

[@somepinkflowers]

How fun & interesting to watch ! 🌸 You’re very good at explaining. Thank you for sharing. 🌸🌸

[@thebarefootdyer]

Thank you! ☺️

[@susanw4699]

Thank you! You explain things so well!

[@howlingwind1937]

Could you use the clay products that are used in face masks, for earth colour pastels. Thank you for making your video and that it all went smoothly with having the baby. Cheers!

[@faithcap]

I have just found you and I love your amazing content. Thank you.

[@TravelingArtista]

Thanks for this. QUESTION: How lightfast are the pigments? Do some organic pigments (not minerals) fade?

[@Ddalgiichigo]

It depends on the specific pigment. if it’s artists pigment you can buy, I wouldn’t worry. pigments like earth pigments should be fine also. lake pigments made from dye, that you make yourself could be unstable? Depends on your process or if it’s from a company, then their process. but as a pastel you’re using pure pigment almost. that’s way more than paint and other mediums so it would have to be a really unstable pigment to lose its Colour quick in my opinion.

[@Alucard33592]

I know I'm a little late but, I make my own pigments the way renaissance artists did, lapis lazuli for blue, malachite for green and whatnot, if your getting your pigment from non organic stuff then you can pretty much be sure its not going to fade, if your making dye from plants and then turning that into pigment its a whole different ballgame and its specific to whatever plant you use

[@TravelingArtista]

Thanks @@Alucard33592 .. basically what I was thinking. I go for the pure minerals as best I can and stay away from anything organic. (plant based) Good for you! I imagine the tools you use to grind down some of those stones are pretty intense!

[@Alucard33592]

@@TravelingArtista actually I do that the old fashioned way too, with a morter and pestle lol then I just water grade the powder I get from that to separate all the undesired materials from the pigment, its a hell of a time sink but the cost of the uncut raw stones ( that I cant forage for in the area that I live ) are dirt cheap compared to the cost of oil paint of the same quality

[@TravelingArtista]

@@Alucard33592 I have a similar approach. I'm always looking for mineral silt and such .. dirt of a different color! Thanks for sharing! I'm looking forward to re-doing my "make your own pastel sticks" video. I've learned a lot since the first one.

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Really good thanks. I've always been interested in in sing natural earth pigments for this kind of thing. I hope all went well with your baby. :-)

[@sanikakamble129]

this is ssoo beautiful !!

[@thebarefootdyer]

Thank you!!

[@alliciaschmoker2513]

Thank you so much for this knowledge

[@thebarefootdyer]

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[@samanthanicholson9015]

What is the filler is it kaolin clay?

[@yellow2615]

Would you make a watercolor?

[@thebarefootdyer]

Check my channel! I have a watercolor tutorial:)

[@mahimapkl888]

Thank you 💝

[@thebarefootdyer]

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