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Earthen Pigments: Hand-Gathering & Using Natural Colors in Art



The colors that I like the most: vanilla, light yellow, yellow ochre, orange ochre, red ochre, green ochre (prismacolor colored pencil), peach, pumpkin, light orange, golden orange, copal, amber, wine reds and in general all red colors... Colorful Food: Recipes that Nourish the Body and Engage the Spirit by Lucinda Freeman.


Embers rising.

Smoldering blood red garnet, glowing amber, sparkling orange yellow and charcoal black colors are all about this Root Chakra, and have ties to earthy energies for grounding any excess fire.

Goddess Persephone Rising celebrates Spring and Seeds of Springtime. Ostara is the lunar festival honoring fertility, renewal, growth, birth and the goddesses of spring.
#PersephoneRising #AwakeningtheHeroineWithin


Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning. - Ally Condie. "Flying into Spring" by artist Mara Berendt Friedman / New Moon Visions Sacred Art . Fire and Blood: Rubies in Myth, Magic and History by Diane Morgan.

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Sitting on a sandy quartz hill between Luberon and Monts de Vaucluse, Roussillon en Provence shines in the ochre light. Located in the heart of the largest ochre bed in the world, Roussillon has been described as one of the most beautiful village sin France. Here the maze of lanes and squares are painted in rust colours, flamboyant reds and subtle lemon yellow, the importance of colour and ochre vibrantly display the earth’s generosity.


Just outside the village are the former ochre quarries. The land here is literally loaded with pigment. Hundreds of years ago the Romans exploited this, mining the ochre and carrying it on donkeys to Marseille by crossing Julien bridge and travelling along the Lourmarin valley, and from there was sent out to traders in all four corners of the Empire. Then came the decline and fall of the Empire. The quarries were deserted and centuries past before a villager Jean-Etienne Astier rediscovered the rich ochre pigment in the landscape. In 1780 he began to once again manufacture solid and beautifully coloured paints from his red and yellow land.

Credited to provinceguide.co.uk

Today the process of manufacturing the ore remains the same and when my mum visited the ochre quarries a few years ago she brought me home some of these beautiful pigments. For some time I left them untouched. They seemed almost like a magical gift of nature; paint so near to its natural form … lifted straight from the flesh of Mother Earth.



I have now begun to use the colours, yet each time I do it is with a sense of reverence and awe. Admittedly I have only used them to do the illustrative work for my book Grow Your Own Gorgeousness, but to me – in my ongoing obsession with the gorgeousness – this seems like a worthy enough project for the Roussillon gold dust. #theoreofmamajuju #luberon #roussillon





Earthen Pigments: Hand-Gathering & Using Natural Colors in Art by artist Sandy Webster. Discover how to collect, process, and use pigments from the earthFinding and collecting earth pigments can be both exciting and rewarding endeavor. 


Coffee cup and squeezer for citrus by Provence Fragances, based in Apt in the Luberon (Provence, France). Most of their natural products and crafts are produced in this region and surrounding areas of Provence (Pays de Saut, Venaissin County, Pays des Sorgues).
 #franceiscallingmeagain #luberon #provence #apt #colorado


earthen organic pottery. Earthy Color Palette #earthworking #earthenware #redware #terracota

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