Dye results with French Marigold flowerheads
Dye results with French Marigold foliage
French Marigold ink
October’s daily drawing challenge - 31 days of collage. The collage material was the cut-up sheets of paper I cleaned my brushes on for last month’s gouache daily drawings. So a similar colour palette, but they feel quite different. This month was definitely the most fun so far this year.
French marigolds - an astonishing amount of colour extraction. This shows the results of hot and cold dye baths of the flower heads, and then also the foliage, which I boiled up separately (lovely smell). Big thanks to my very kind neighbour Norman who donated these magic plants for dye experimentation.
I also made a tiny batch of French Marigold ink – bottled sunshine as the winter nights draw in!