This gallery contains in images from experiments in making natural mineral and botanical pigments, inks and art materials. Materials shown here include walnuts, woad, turnsole, weld, ochre, chalk, gum tragacanth, buckthorn, coreopsis, slate, charcoal, oak gall, madder, field madder, dyer’s chamomile and willow.
Welsh slate, charcoal and salt 
Woad in the making 
Woad drying 
Woad indigo 
Making walnut ink 
English Walnut skins 
Folium blue – turnsole 
Three inks 
Purple ochre 
Colours from home made pastels 
Home made pastels from natural pigments and chalk 
Ochres 
Oak galls 
Madder pigment 
Coreopsis ink 
Ochre and weld 
Homemade charcoal 
Roots of field madder 
Ink from dyer’s chamomile 
Homemade charcoal 
Greens from indigo and weld 
Chalk
Copyright © 2021. Elle Salt. All rights reserved.
Elle salt 