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After weeks of filtering, drying and washing - which isn't a lot of work, just a lot of waiting, I finally have another batch of pigments. These are my favorites.

Everything except the iron oxide was made using the lake pigment method. I made the iron oxide from steel wool decomposed with hydrogen peroxide and salt water. I can get reddish to almost black (like here) depending on the material and... other things about the process I haven't quite figured out yet.

The three different avocado colours are from the same batch with the ph adjusted, the darkest one is from adding iron mordant (rusty nails in vinegar.) The spinach gave me two colours from using aluminum phosphate for the darker batch and aluminum sulfate for the yellowier one.

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