In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make your own Watercolor paint - Watercolor paint is beautiful, fun, wonderful for children and adults and requires no special solvents or cleaners. It can be made with natural or synthetic pigment and can allow the natural dyer a beautiful means to an end for their leftover dye baths. Learn how to make your own pigment from leftover dye baths in my Making Pigment Tutorial Here.

Natural Dyes resulting from time intensive color extraction either from found/foraged/salvaged or carefully cultivated plants are particularly special to make into paint color that can live on. This technique works for both plant based pigments like indigo & ‘lake pigments’ as well as with earth pigments. Lightfastness and stability of color can depend on the dye and mordant used in the lake making process.

Watercolor paint is a water soluble paint that dries quickly and is easy to make at home with natural ingredients. Making your own paint with your own pigment is as satisfying as natural color gets!

Tutorial includes a detailed explanation of the component ingredients in watercolor paint and their roles in the overall paint character- knowing ingredient roles will help you understand how to adjust ratios of individual ingredients for varying issues that may arise and create the best performing paint possible for your unique pigment.

Tutorial includes supplies list, links to tools, ideas for cutting costs for those just beginning in watercolor making, homemade watercolor medium recipe, and a detailed step by step procedure for the whole process as well as a troubleshooting section for perfecting your individual paints.

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