my
pigments
They were already existed in mighty nature. I
only recognized them over the years.
My mother was my first teacher with whom I learned
some very basic vegetable and commonly available
earth pigments. She used to dye yarn with vegetable
pigments and with earth pigments she used to paint
on the mud wall and papier-mâché
bowls
Local artisan used to decorate Walls of Havelies
(palatial houses) with the fresco style using
more wide variety of earth and vegetable pigments.
I have learnt fresco painting with those artisans
as there apprentice in my child hood.
At the age of fourteen I went to learn Thangka
painting techniques and the meditative way of
Buddhist living. There I learnt wide variety of
vegetable, earth, precious and semi precious mineral
pigments to grind and washing and also extracting
procuring and recognizing the vegetable pigments
and as well earth and mineral pigments
Later during my travels to Scandinavia, Europe,
Latin America, and Asian countries especially
African region I could gather extensive variety
of pigments to my Color pallet
The use of natural pigments and binders is
an age-old technique to make art works by artists
on earth.
The enjoyment of making preparing grinding own
color is a great relationships with material its
hue and the metamorphosis of it and then in the
process of making art a natural intelligence of
human and material dose wonder sometime
Vegetables pigments
For the last 30 years of research wok, I have
found about 600 sources of vegetables dye and
about 1800 hues. Most of them are not permanent
in nature and few of them are permanent and tested
in art practices and dying process.
They have been extracted from barks, roots, fruits,
pollen, fruits and flowers with different techniques
and mixture of mordant. I mainly use not more
than 10 vegetables dyes for painting because I
use vegetable pigments on the upper surface of
canvas but while painting on raw cloth or paper
I have quit a vast pallet of different hues of
vegetable colors.
Mineral pigments
Mineral pigments are mainly divided in to three
categories, Earth pigments, semiprecious pigments
and precious pigments
My Medium
Egg tempera (water based and oil based), Gum Arabic
and vegetables glycerin for watercolor and gouache
painting
I prepare my oil-based pigments with beeswax,
dammer, linseed oil, and turpentine
I believe that no pigments are unnatural
they come from natural sources. Even all-chemical
package colors, which are prepared with technologies
of modern times. The chemicals are excessively
extracted from the sources more and more to fulfill
consumer's need and that I Call a human greed
and unnatural way of living against ecological
balance
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