From Plant to Pigment, 9781837760671
Hardcover
Create vibrant paints and pastels from nature’s own botanical palette.

From Plant to Pigment

How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints

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  • Hardcover

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    14 October 2025

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Summary

A manual full of recipes for artists to create their own pigments, paints, and pastels from botanical sources.

Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator known for her explorations of handmade, homegrown pigments. In From Plant to Pigment she invites us into her studio, sharing the ways she has divested her practice of non-renewable synthetics in favour of the craft of handmade, homegrown, local colour.

Learn the fundamental technique of how to make a l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781837760671
ISBN-10:1837760675
Author:Natalie Stopka
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:Skittledog
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:14 October 2025
Weight:640g
Dimensions:224mm x 176mm
About The Author

Natalie Stopka

Natalie Stopka is a leading practitioner and artistic researcher of lake pigments, and has been sharing her expertise and love of plant colourants with students for over a decade. Raised on the south coast of Massachusetts, she earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the University of New Mexico. She now lives in New York State.

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