From Plant to Pigment

How to make vibrant inks and artists' materials from plants

$43.99

A complete guide to extracting vivid pigments from plants – and making your own professional-grade paints with them

This book is not yet published, but will be available from October 2025.

ISBN: 9781837760671 Category:

Natalie Stopka

Description

A complete guide to extracting vivid pigments from plants – and making your own professional-grade paints with them.

Natalie’s colours stand out from the usual plant-dye inks, which fade over time. In the book she demonstrates the fundamental technique of how to make a lake, which binds to the inks and makes pigments that are lasting and vivid. These, in turn, give you inks, watercolours and pastels from across the spectrum that are perfect to use for your own artistic endeavours.

Additional information

Dimensions 17.6 x 22.4 cm
Publisher name Thames and Hudson Ltd
Publication date 14 October 2025
Number of pages 176
Format Hardback
Dimensions 17.6 x 22.4 cm
Weight g
Natalie Stopka is a leading practitioner and artistic researcher of lake pigments, and has been sharing her expertise and love of plant colourants with students for over a decade. Raised on the south coast of Massachusetts, she earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the University of New Mexico. She now lives in New York State.