Petra van Cronenburg
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馃У 3/ #Artist and #scientist Kirsten Kurtz was one of my inspirations: https://soilpainting.com/ I came to know about her via the UN global #soil painting contest in 2017: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/11/dec-5-global-soil-painting-competition-illustrates-soils-vital-role

She has a recipe using clear gesso and varnish, it's the best if your piece of art should exist longer: https://soilpainting.com/soil-painting-how-to-guide/

#Soil scientist and artist Karen Vaughn worked with #wildfire ashes + soil or #dirt also with kids: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-western-soil-scientists-using-dirt-make-stunning-paints-180976796/
Petra van Cronenburg
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馃У 4/4 The Wild Pigment project has good guidelines for #reciprocal #foraging: https://wildpigmentproject.org/reciprocal-foraging

Artist Gary Simpson worked with soil samples from the whole world to track down the #history of places: https://hyperallergic.com/487683/artists-find-common-ground-in-soil-from-around-the-world/

Human comes from humus: a collection of earth art: https://somethingcurated.com/2024/11/15/soil-in-contemporary-art/ from the 1970s until today

And photos of my ocre goddesses inspired by the Cucuteni Trypillia Culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_culture

#places #earth #soil #art #histodon #human #pigments #goddess

A female torso sculpture in typical neolithic style, wearing a belt with a big spiral of genuine copper. It consists of paper clay (own secret recipe) and is painted with natural, hand-grinded ocre in a bright reddish brown. It lays of a "baked" stone from the oldest petrol refinery of the world (first half of the 19th century), an artificial stone with blackish and blueish and some reddish colours, with cracks.
A female torso sculpture in typical neolithic style, wearing a belt with a big spiral of genuine copper. It consists of paper clay (own secret recipe) and is painted with natural, hand-grinded ocre in a bright reddish brown. It lays of a "baked" stone from the oldest petrol refinery of the world (first half of the 19th century), an artificial stone with blackish and blueish and some reddish colours, with cracks.
A female torso sculpture in typical neolithic style, wearing a belt with a big spiral of genuine copper. It consists of paper clay (own secret recipe) and is painted with natural, hand-grinded ocre in a bright reddish brown. It lays of a "baked" stone from the oldest petrol refinery of the world (first half of the 19th century), an artificial stone with blackish and blueish and some reddish colours, with cracks.
Petra van Cronenburg
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馃У1/4 is a good time to play with , experiment with natural pigments. It's easy: take some surface soil without organic and other rests, solve it in water (or white school glue for longer lasting images) and paint!
The finer the soil, the better the pigments work. You can also sieve and even grind the finds. Great for children to discover the rich diversity of soil.

Zoom on the paper showing 12 colour samples. Half of them is earth in water, the other half is earth solved in white glue. The samples come from forest soil, worm dropping, raw petrol, natural ocre or famland soil. The colours show different brown shades from beige to reddish brown, and dark brown.
Zoom on the paper showing 12 colour samples. Half of them is earth in water, the other half is earth solved in white glue. The samples come from forest soil, worm dropping, raw petrol, natural ocre or famland soil. The colours show different brown shades from beige to reddish brown, and dark brown.
Zoom on the paper showing 12 colour samples. Half of them is earth in water, the other half is earth solved in white glue. The samples come from forest soil, worm dropping, raw petrol, natural ocre or famland soil. The colours show different brown shades from beige to reddish brown, and dark brown.