Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color
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Art meets science in Book of Earth, artist and ochre specialist Heidi Gustafson’s guide to creating color with Earth’s extraordinary pigments, exploring their fascinating uses today and throughout history and culture.
In this part rock guide, part art book, and part earth magic, "ochre whisperer" Heidi Gustafson welcomes us inside her rare working collection of more than six hundred ochre pigments (humankind's oldest art material) from around the planet. As we follow her through orange swamps. red tides, green soil secrets, blue clay exposures, and more, she offers immersive stories, techniques, and how-tos for working with pigments made from land--no matter where you live or what minerals are available to you--and applying these skills to inspire and deepen respect, reciprocity, creativity, and connection with what is at our feet.
In this part rock guide, part art book, and part earth magic, "ochre whisperer" Heidi Gustafson welcomes us inside her rare working collection of more than six hundred ochre pigments (humankind's oldest art material) from around the planet. As we follow her through orange swamps. red tides, green soil secrets, blue clay exposures, and more, she offers immersive stories, techniques, and how-tos for working with pigments made from land--no matter where you live or what minerals are available to you--and applying these skills to inspire and deepen respect, reciprocity, creativity, and connection with what is at our feet.
In Book of Earth, Heidi's poetic passion, field experience, and cross-cultural relationships with other ochre stewards around the globe not only challenge how we interact with the inanimate world around us, but also help us appreciate how ochre connects us to the earth and to one another today.