From Plant to Pigment: How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints

An inspiring 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 favor of the craft of handmade, homegrown, local colour.

Learn the fundamental technique of how to make a lake pigment, transforming botanical dye into lasting, vivid pigment. This gorgeous book will give you the tools to make the most vibrant natural colors that are perfect for your own artistic endeavors.

Sections include:

  Botanical sources (cultivating, foraging, harvesting and storing dye plants).

  The studio larder (essential equipment and ingredients).

  Lake pigments (including Natalie’s master lake pigment recipe).

  Other plant pigments

  Artists’ materials (using your botanical pigments to make an array of artists’ materials). 

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From Plant to Pigment: How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints

An inspiring 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 favor of the craft of handmade, homegrown, local colour.

Learn the fundamental technique of how to make a lake pigment, transforming botanical dye into lasting, vivid pigment. This gorgeous book will give you the tools to make the most vibrant natural colors that are perfect for your own artistic endeavors.

Sections include:

  Botanical sources (cultivating, foraging, harvesting and storing dye plants).

  The studio larder (essential equipment and ingredients).

  Lake pigments (including Natalie’s master lake pigment recipe).

  Other plant pigments

  Artists’ materials (using your botanical pigments to make an array of artists’ materials). 

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From Plant to Pigment: How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints

From Plant to Pigment: How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints

by Natalie Stopka
From Plant to Pigment: How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints

From Plant to Pigment: How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints

by Natalie Stopka

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An inspiring 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 favor of the craft of handmade, homegrown, local colour.

Learn the fundamental technique of how to make a lake pigment, transforming botanical dye into lasting, vivid pigment. This gorgeous book will give you the tools to make the most vibrant natural colors that are perfect for your own artistic endeavors.

Sections include:

  Botanical sources (cultivating, foraging, harvesting and storing dye plants).

  The studio larder (essential equipment and ingredients).

  Lake pigments (including Natalie’s master lake pigment recipe).

  Other plant pigments

  Artists’ materials (using your botanical pigments to make an array of artists’ materials). 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781837760862
Publisher: Skittledog
Publication date: 10/28/2025
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Natalie Stopka is a leading practitioner and artistic researcher of lake pigments and has been sharing her expertise and love of plant colorants 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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