Good day and welcome to The Grind and Bind Art Alchemist's Guild.
An artist's community for the kind of people who don't just paint, they scavenge pigment from rotten leftovers. It's for potters who dig their clay from riverbeds, for weavers who spin their own wool (and probably know the name of the sheep,) and it's for digital artists who hack away at their creative endeavors.
All flavors are welcome to:
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On Self-Promotion
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!artmarket@lemmy.world and !artshare@lemmy.world are geared toward self promotion if you want to cross-post.
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This is a dark place.
Most art will leave you feeling inspired, maybe even joyful — if not a little thoughtful. Not this art.
This is a place of paint drinking gremlins with caustic burns on our hands and ink stains on our feet. A dark, damp basement smelling of bleach and burning and bioplastics, of empty wallets and ephemeral passions, of education, of science.
Most art makes people better, but this place can only make you worse, poorer, stained, and consumed by the craft.
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This is a new community, the structure and rules may change without notice. All things are ephemeral. Shoot Wren a DM if you have any ideas or want to help out.
Finally.
It only took weeks of letting copper sit in a vinegar sauna (but no touching!) and a day of double-boiling off the liquid to get... about 5g of pigment. Nevermind the toxic fumes and toxic everything else and the fact that Verdigris is super aggro to other colours.
Worth it. I feel like a renaissance artist, minus the radiation and lead poisoning. My sinuses feel weird.
What it looked like in the jar before I scraped it out:
Nope, I used vinegar so it'll have a few different copper salts in there. I think, I'm no chemist.
You can make copper sulphate using sulphuric acid, though.