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For my creation I used watercolour paints and coloured pencil. I honestly am super happy with how this painting turned out. Reference and progress photos are below the read more.
Heads up! Now Bookface has finished, new handmade earth pigments paints and sets are up in my store! I'm super proud of them, especially the green earths set 💚🪨🖌️
I'm getting better, so I'm also getting back on my bullshit 😂 Making the whole screen cobalt green 💚
This pigment is from Jackson's Art, because they're the only supplier who gave me a decent reply to my questions about cobalt-containing pigments & avoiding products of modern slavery/child labour. And I know it's an almost impossible question tbh; only a very small proportion of the world's cobalt goes into pigments (way more is used in tech prod.) These pigments are also highly processed and thus divorced from ore coming out of the ground. But we should still ask our suppliers if they at least comply with REACH and EU legislation aimed at remediation of forced labour & human rights violations.
Anyway smol note of appreciation for Jackson's UK staff who have to deal with my regular vexing questions about pigment regional origins and ethics. They always answer, even if it takes a while for them to track down where something came from (and even when I lose track of where TF things are... 😬) and I value that.
Oh shit I have polls? Huh, so I do! Now I have to think of something to make into a poll... Hmm I've been struggling to find a yellow watercolour paint that I like (particularly would like a transparent one but that seems even more difficult)