Making Verona green paint. This is a more olive shade of green earth than the Kremer Nicosia green I shared here. I also have a couple of other green earths (Ok, ok... 5 of them because it's my favourite colour,) including one gathered by another artist from her backyard clay. I've made chalk paint from rocks in my own back garden, shale paint from my sister's, and I want to try making grey clay paint from the soil in my area too, but that's a bit more complicated. The method I want to try is here.

Again, I wore a suitable mask - this is technically a non-toxic pigment but no-one needs to repaint their lungs. Shop-bought pigments come with an MSDS that tells you if you need to wear FFP1/2 masks and/or gloves. Having worked in a lab I still have that stuff kicking around which is handy, but it's worth getting them to avoid dying yourself esp with the stronger synthetic pigments... I mean phthalo blues/greens take so fucken long to get off anything, truly 😅