No need for store-bought paint when you can learn to make your own natural inks and dyes from plants and flowers.
Nature provides a rich palette of colors and tones from the plants and flowers around us. Join Caleb Warnock, creator of the Backyard Renaissance series, and create your own natural colors for painting on paper or pottery and dying cloth.
With swatches of each shade to find your perfect match, information about each of the over 250 plants, and detailed instructions to make your own paints, inks, and dyes, 1000 Botanical Colors is the home artist's ultimate guidebook.
Warnock (437 Edible Wild Plants of the Rocky Mountain West) adds to his prolific bibliography of gardening, cooking, and self-sufficiency titles with this new book celebrating colors straight from Mother Nature. . . . Readers curious about the intricacies involved in plant-based crafting and natural ingredients will find this title useful and appreciate the author’s enthusiasm for the botanical world. ―Aspasia Luster, Library Journal
Whether an amateur or professional artist, you will no longer be restricted to store-bought paint when with "1000 Botanical Colors: Make Your Own Dyes, Paints, Inks, Stains, and Pottery Paints from 250 Plants" you can now easily learn how to make your own natural inks and dyes from plants and flowers―exactly like the great artists of antiquity did. Unique, massively illustrated in full color, expertly written, comprehensive, thoroughly 'reader/user' friendly in organization and presentation. ―Midwest Book Review
Caleb Warnock is a USA Today–bestselling author of 24 nonfiction books, including 276 Edible Wild Plants of the United States and Canada. He is an expert on gardening and self-reliant living and has taught gardening classes for more than 25 years.