I’m still looking for an efficient way to pulverize rocks, so in the meantime I decided to experiment with some pigments that can be created through chemical reactions. The two I chose to start with, because the colors are exceptionally beautiful and the components easily obtained, were red iron oxide and verdigris. Red iron oxide…

I do not like mussels. I do not eat mussels. And I certainly do not cook mussels. (Or much of anything else, but that’s a story for another time.) Relying on Abby’s observation that some mussels are blue, and my research that indicated blue mussels grow in Maine, I was planning a road trip to…

I’ve been swamped since my last post, mostly with the “back office” work that makes painting possible. Substack seemed a better way to get my posts out to you than MailChimp, but it took some time to set up. I still have a lot to learn about to use it most effectively, but if you are…