Since time immemorial, people have used earth pigments to add color to their surroundings. Pigments were mixed with different binders and fillers to process these dyes in different ways.

Come and work with these beautiful natural colors and create your own artist materials at the Ambacht in Beeld Festival.

Chalk paint is a matt natural paint, which you can use on both walls and furniture and which you can very well make yourself. Come learn how to do this and mix your own paint. This paint is nature-friendly, you know exactly what is in it and you create your own colours!

During this 1.5-hour workshop, you will learn how to make the base for your paint. then you get to mix different pigments into your perfect colour and make your first jar of paint.

You get to mix 3 different colours and take them home.

Includes:

All paint materials

A wood sample to try out your paint on

Recipe on paper

Twirre van Kraaijenoord is the founder of Handmade Heaven, she is a creative designer and uses different crafts and techniques in her designs. She followed a course for Trompe-l’oeil painting in which, in addition to painting marble and wood, the craft of oil paint was also taught. She has done research into natural dyes for textiles. Twirre has continued her search for natural colors and now makes her own extracts, paints, inks and pastels. In the television program “The secret of the master” which can be seen in October, she makes the artist’s material with ingredients from the master!