Madison Woods is a painter living in Madison County, and she creates her own pigments from materials gathered from a tributary to the Kings River. We visit her studio to learn more about her method of paleo painting.
Local Artist Creates Paints Using Ancient Methods
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Madison Woods searches for stones along a stream near her Madison County homestead to crush into mineral pigments.
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The creek, a tributary to the Kings River, contains a wealth of colorful sand stones.
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Madison Woods crushes the soft stones with a mortar and pestle in her workshop.
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Madison Woods’ artist workbench contains an array of tools to make earth pigments.";
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Vials of mineral pigments mined from the local creek are line the workbench, used for watercoloring.
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Madison Woods stands by a goshawk portrait she watercolored with her hand-made paleo paints.
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Woods’ fox kit portrait was watercolored with rich russet minerals ground from local creek rocks.";
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Madison Woods also makes “Paleo to Go” watercolor pallets that are for sale on her Etsy site. The copper coil holds shot glasses of water.";s:
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