Pigment Hunt: Oakland, CA

Recap of the ochre hunt in the Oakland hills and subsequent paintmaking with wild pigments.

Palette Scout challenge: find three paints that can be mixed for an artwork that uses the given color scheme.

Ultramarine Blue

Ultramarine blue is a vivid, lightfast, granulating watercolor. The precious made accessible.

Caput Mortuum

Limn Colors caput mortuum, made from a rich brown hematite pigment, produces beautiful color variation and sediment.

Cadmium Red

Cadmium red is an opaque, lightfast, staining, high-tinting, stop-you-in-your tracks, bright red paint.

Ivory Black & Iron Oxide Black

Ivory black marries bone black and mars black pigments for beautiful texture, opacity, and darkness.

COLOR STORY