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:
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Woaaa.
That’ll make a whole load of oilpaint! 😁
What are your plans for it?
Not sure yet, I just really wanted some. I could go traditional and make a tempera.
I hope you’ll post about it! I mean whatever you do with it!
I definitely will!
Is that cupper sulphate? I think I remember making something similar in school in science class
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.