KEY TO IDENTIFY GROUND BRIGHT PIGMENTS
***Note: The 47 pigments from 33 artists that have been featured in Ground Bright, Wild Pigment Project’s monthly pigment subscription can be identified through comparison with each other. This method of identification requires close observation which increases intimacy with the material through direct sensory experience. The following descriptions facilitate the comparison.
REDS, ORANGES & PINKS
RED OCHRE (Heidi Gustafson) & TELEPHIC RED a blend of iron oxides from alchemically transmuted gun metals, (Thomas Little) are very similar. RED OCHRE is slightly more yellow, and slightly less saturated than TELEPHIC RED. TELEPHIC RED has a smaller ball, and a leaf with a rounded tip.
ANCESTOR BROWN (Lucille Junkere) is a deep bright red-orange-brown, more yellow than GAYULI (Melissa Ladkin), which has a smaller ball and is ever-so-slightly pinker.
RED BANK RED (Amanda Brazier) is a bright light orange with a darker orange ball.
OCCANEECHI SHIMMER (Kelly Moody) is slightly pinker than RED BANK RED, and is flecked with lots of mica sparkles.
OAK CREEK IRON (Kelly Moody ) is pinker than DART RED OCHRE (Caroline Ross ), which has a big leaf and a very big ball, and is not as pink as SE OREGON.
SE OREGON (Nancy Pobanz ) is a warm middle pink and the leaf shows signs of brushmarks.
GLACIAL BONES (PINK) ( Heidi Gustafson ) is lighter than SE OREGON but not as light as MULLUMBIMBY PINK ( Karma Barnes ) which is the palest pink.
COMB WASH (Nancy Pobanz ) is a brilliant deep orange-pink.
DART OCHRE (BRONZE) ( Caroline Ross ) is a soft, pale orange-brown, much less saturated than RED BANK RED.
GREENS & GRAYS
KALAPUYA COUNTY (Tilke Elkins ) is a warm, brownish green that is the deepest, darkest green.
HOPI / TURTLE ISLAND LAKE ( Julie Beeler ) is slightly paler and bluer than KALAPUYA COUNTY and has a very dark, almost black ball.
WHILAMUT ( Tilke Elkins ) is cooler, bluer and paler than KALAPUYA COUNTY.
HILLSIDE SLOUGH ( Teri Power ) is a warm, soft, pale brown-green that is slightly yellower than ROCK FLOUR ( Nina Elder ).
DAPPLE GREEN ( Elpitha Tsoutsounakis ) is a pale, soft blue-green that is an ever-so-slightly more saturated green than CELADONITE ( Melonie Ancheta ).
CELADONITE is almost imperceptibly bluer and paler than DAPPLE GREEN, and has a smaller ball than DAPPLE GREEN.
TULIP / TURTLE ISLAND LAKE ( Ashlee Weitlauf ) is a bright light green with a gritty ball.
POPOLO / TURTLE ISLAND LAKE ( Avalon Paradea ) is the palest green, almost white, with a gritty ball.
GLACIAL BONES (GREY) ( Heidi Gustafson ) is a soft grey, bluer than ROCK FLOUR.
VIOLETS & PURPLE-ISH BROWNS
SPOILS (Caroline Ross ) is deep maroon with mica sparkles, on a big leaf.
UNDERLOG (Tilke Elkins ) is warm soft chocolate brown.
EXTINCTION HEMATITE ( Tilke Elkins )is violet, paler than SPOILS and darker than CAMAFEEMA ( Tilke Elkins ).
CAMAFEEMA is a lavender hematite, lighter than EXTINCTION HEMATITE and darker than ATYBAN MAGUE ( Catalina Christensen ).
ATYBAN MAGUE is the palest violet, and is cooler than PROVIDENCE ( Sydney Matrisciano ).
PROVIDENCE is a pinkish mauve, and is the pinkest violet.
SAWKILL CREEK ( Adi Blaustein Rejto ) is a soft, pale brown, like pale brown paper.
YELLOWS & YELLOW-ISH BROWN
PAPER TIGER ( Thomas Little ) is a rich yellow-ochre.
GOLDEN VEIN ( Hosanna White ) is the deepest, brightest, clearest yellow.
DART YELLOW OCHRE (Caroline Ross ) is a warm, pale yellow.
CALDERA TUFF ( Scott Sutton ) is a slightly paler and cooler yellow than DART YELLOW OCHRE
BLACKS
SABLE WAVE (Thomas Little ) is a warmer, redder, more opaque black than WANDERING WINTERKILL.
WANDERING WINTERKILL (Daniela Naomi Molnar ) is a more granular, cooler black than SABLE WAVE.
WHITES
OAK ROOTS CHALK (Caroline Ross ) is a smooth, opaque white, with a smooth ball.
SCULPTOR’S DUST (Marjorie Morgan & Joshua Ruder ) is a less opaque, more granular white than OAK ROOTS CHALK, with a grittier ball.
WALWUNMUTJI (Lorraine Brigdale ) is pale and very sparkly.
BLUES
OVERBURDEN (Nina Elder )is a turquoise-green, with a tiny ball, on a tiny leaf.
COASTAL VALLEY BLUE ( Brittany Boles, Iris Sullivan Daire, & Kara Gilbert ) Dare is a pale, medium blue.
PIGMENT DATES AND PROVENANCE
07.19 WHILAMUT is a green earth, possibly glauconite or celadonite, from Kalapuya territory / Springfield , Oregon, USA, contributed by Tilke Elkins.
08.19 RED OCHRE is a red iron oxide, from a parking lot that destroyed and covered an indigenous Costanoan Ohlone ochre mine / Oakland, California, USA contributed by Heidi Gustafson.
09.19 CELADONITE is a celadonite, a phyllosilicate of potassium, contributed by Melonie Ancheta, from her research collection.
10.19 TELEPHIC RED a blend of iron oxides derived from alchemically transmuted gun metals, contributed by Thomas Little.
11.19 WELD LAKE is a lake made from weld growing in a dye garden on Lenapehoking Territory / New Jersey, USA, grown and contributed by Natalie Stopka.
12. 19 OAK ROOTS CHALK is chalk dug up by badgers under an oak tree near Stonehenge, England, contributed by Caroline Ross.
01.20 EXTINCTION HEMATITE is a violet hematite from Kalapuya territory, contributed by Tilke Elkins.
02.20 RED BANK RED is a red clay dug from the base of a fallen tree in Tsalaguwetii territory / Tennessee, USA, contributed by Amanda Brazier.
03.20 MULLUMBIMBY PINK is an iron oxide gathered from a roadcut on Arakwal territory / Byron Bay Australia, contributed by Karma Barnes.
04.20 OAK CREEK IRON is an iron oxide gathered on Pueblos / Hohokam / Hopitutskwa territory / Arizona, USA contributed by Kelly Moody.
05. 20 COMB WASH is an iron oxide given by a friend to contributor Nancy Pobanz.
06.20 GOLDEN VIEN is a goethite from Kalapuya territory / Oregon, USA contributed by Hosanna White.
07.20 KALAPUYA COUNTY is a celadonite from Kalapuya Territory / Oregon, USA contributed by Tilke Elkins.
08.20 COASTAL VALLEY is an indigo-clay pigment, made with indigo grown on Wapato Territory / Sauvie Island, Oregon, USA contributed by Brittany Boles, Iris Sullivan Daire, and Kara Gilbert.
09.20 WALWUNMUTJ is a mica from Dja Dja Warrung territory / Victoria, Australia, contributed by Lorraine Brigdale.
10.20 TURTLE ISLAND LAKES are three lake pigments, made with pōpolo, tulip and hopi sunflower, grown on Kānaka Maoli territory / Hawaaii, USA, Kalapuya territory / Oregon, USA, and Wasco territory / Oregon, USA by Avalon Paradea, Ashlee Weitlauf and Julie Beeler.
11.20 OVERBURDEN / ROCK FLOUR are a copper mine overburden and a glacier erosion clay gathered on Tlingit territory / Alaska, USA, by contributor Nina Elder.
12.20 SABLE WAVE is a magnetite iron oxide derived from alchemically transmuted gun metals by contributor Thomas Little.
01.21 CAMAFEEMA is a hematite-kaolinite mineral from Kalapuya territory / Oregon, USA contributed by Tilke Elkins.
02. 21 OCCANEECHI SHIMMER is a micaceous iron oxide from Occaneechi territory / Virginia, USA, contributed by Kelly Moody.
03.21 ANCESTOR BROWN is an iron oxide from Jamaica, contributed by Lucille Junkere.
04.21 DART OCHRES are three iron oxides, yellow, red and bronze, from Devon, England, contributed by Caroline Ross.
05.21 GLACIAL BONES are a grey and a pink ochre from Coast Salish territory / Washington, USA, contributed by Heidi Gustafson.
06.21 CALDERA TUFF is a geothire / jarosite mineral from Pueblos / Ute / Tiwa territories, contributed by Scott Sutton.
(please see the Ground Bright Archives for a complete list)
Photos by Byron Flesher, courtesy of form & concept.