From Plant to Pigment

How to make your own vibrant inks, pastels and paints

Natalie Stopka

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SKITTLEDOG
01 October 2025

Art & Architecture; Art techniques & principles

A complete guide to extracting vivid pigments from plants - and making your own professional-grade paints with them.

Natalie's colours stand out from the usual plant-dye inks, which fade over time. In the book she demonstrates the fundamental technique of how to make a lake, which binds to the inks and makes pigments that are lasting and vivid. These, in turn, give you inks, watercolours and pastels from across the spectrum that are perfect to use for your own artistic endeavours.

By: Natalie Stopka
Imprint: SKITTLEDOG
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 176mm,
ISBN: 9781837760671
ISBN 10: 1837760675
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Natalie Stopka is a leading practitioner and artistic researcher of lake pigments, and has been sharing her expertise and love of plant colourants with students for over a decade. Raised on the south coast of Massachusetts, she earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the University of New Mexico. She now lives in New York State.