Clay Paint

 I am a real fan of bioshields clay paints, but I also love to make my own.

As per request for clay paint recipe, use as a starting point, refine

to personal taste as you would any recipe

Clay Paint 101

1 gallon h20

5 quarts kaolin clay or local sourced clay

4 quarts total combined of whiting,extra fine sand and/or mica

1 quart of flour or rice paste

slackened pigment for color if needed

whisk or beat with a plaster drill

all ingredients can be bought at a pottery supply house

If you have left over paint, which you should for touch up, dry paint

by pouring on a tarp and allow spill to dry completely before storing

always do a sample before painting an area, if paint cracks use more

sand or whiting

can thin with h20 if need be

buy Carole's book http://carolecrews.com/

check out
http://www.bioshieldpaint.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=93

http://www.earthpigments.com/

Thinking about summer workshops, request welcome.

very cool simple solar sky light

anarchyapiaries

Sam Comfort took over John's bee yard here in Tivoli when we were living in New Mexico and made it his. Check out the video link and his passion. We feel luck to have Sam bee yard here!

http://anarchyapiaries.org/fullscreen.html

Garlic Harvest Time

Earth Oven Workshop Tivoli NY 2011

A great editorial

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/opinion/20mcardle.html?_r=1

A great editorial that talks about how much we have to learn from the  so called third world that have been practicing sustainability for centuries. It makes me want to make another solar cooker.