Create your own plant-based paint - Watercolours with 110 plants and recycled materials

Pick elderberries, crush them in a mortar and mortar and you'll get purple. Add a little baking soda, lemon or alum powder and you've got green, pink or blue. It's not magic, it's vegetable paint, and it's free... or almost! From bright red to deep blue to luminous orange, all the colors on our palette can be made with a minimum of materials and time. Homemade enthusiasts, nature lovers or the simply curious, discover how to create your own watercolors. You can glean your raw materials from nature or your garden... but also from your kitchen! Flowers, leaves, berries and roots are an infinite source of creativity. In this richly illustrated book, you'll find the different methods for extracting colors, one hundred and ten practical sheets with a color chart for each plant, a harvesting calendar, techniques for preserving over time, and medieval recipes. Natural, economical, ecological, respectful of the environment and your health, vegetable-based paint is a wonderful alternative to chemical paints.

Hélène Chevallier - Éditions Terran - 208 pages