Colour from the Land
Making Your Own Oil Paint
Field foraging notes and boiling charts covering wattle bark, onion skins, and eucalyptus tannin extractions, complete with alum mordant recipes and fabric lightfastness tests.
The foundational bench treatise detailing pigment washing, glass slab mulling techniques, and cold-pressed linseed oil ratios for twenty-four distinct Mpumalanga mineral earths.
The Body of Paint & Studio Tips
A combined bench guide to chalk extenders, glaze viscosity, impasto rheology, and daily palette maintenance compiled across five decades of regional workshop practice.
Every mineral formula survives five hundred years when ground properly in raw oil.
We reject synthetic stabilizers and artificial driers. Our bench manuals record the exact oil absorption indices and washing routines required to keep hand-dug Mpumalanga iron oxides archival upon linen.
Studio prints and digital folios
Download complete digital PDF plates immediately or visit the Barberton workshop desk for sewn linen-tape reprints on archival cotton rag.