Started the day with some sour dough and java, then a nice bike ride, on return my next-door neighbour heard about my idea to use some copper to make Verdigris and gave me some copper to use. After eating some spicy pheasant breast, I drove to the studio and made another paper assemblage, ate some sour jellybeans and made a hematite red and clay pastel, but with clay I levigated to get the crap out of it and then dried and crushed so it mixed better with the pigment. I think this will make a nicer pastel than just using the clay without processing it. When I got home, I heated up some vinegar and poured it into a glass jar I put bits of the copper pipe into, hopefully a reaction will happen over the next week or more and I’ll get some pigment I can use. Ate too much garlic bread today. Peace out.
copper pipes submerged in distilled malt vinegar. if this doesn’t work I’ll try a mixture of peroxide and vinegar.
dry clay, crushed, dry powder clay next to hematite, mix of both, moisture added and finished product.