http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress Making and Thinking About Visual Art Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:06:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/01/15/the-smell-of-earth-pigments/ http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/01/15/the-smell-of-earth-pigments/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:05:24 +0000 David http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/01/15/the-smell-of-earth-pigments/ I keep most of my raw pigments in small glass jars, mixed into a paste with distilled water. Did you know that earth pigments have a smell? Of course they do; when you mix them with water, you get a sort of mud, and mud has a smell. The earths have a deep, loamy smell that makes me think of the first artists painting brilliantly and expressively with ochres on cave walls.

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