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Elyse Portal
@elyseportal.bsky.social
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ecoartist interested in wild pigments, foraged colour, remedial art, community-engaged practices and other expanded ecomaterial processes...aka climate crisis endurance exercises

https://www.elyseportal.com

#pigments #wildpigments #ochre #ecoart
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Sudbury soil, mica, French turquoise, lake water, gum arabic, honey, glycerin

#naturalpaint
natural watercolour paint processes (turquoise shimmer) at a boreal shield shoreline
June 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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check out this amazing album, project blue, including the song transcend (these times) by Emilio Portal + Tamara Ruth Parker:

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@emilioportal.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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pigments as land as mentors
5 pigments from the boreal: charcoal, manganese clay, red soil, yellow orchre, green earth
February 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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recent pigment happenings in the studio

#ecoart
#ecopigment
#pigmentprocess
#soilpigment
#foundcharcoal
mica glitters mixed with sandy soil and reacts to a plant-based medium to create chance lines and shapes almost looking like a golden agate soil and natural purple pigment boreal brown soil mixed with purple pigment and plant-based medium ground charcoal, copper mica, and natural purple pigment
February 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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if a person posts on pixelfed (or bluesky) does anybody hear?
birch woven bird nest filled with snow
January 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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some kind of solace
layered in pigments
touching fire remnants...
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natural colour
hues
of backyard dried blood
Earth's crust

a lake once touched
by an asteroid
...
materials: 3 pigments were gathered near the urban spring-fed lake, held within the boreal, as the ice freezes.
ecopigments on canvas made from found red ochre local clay, firepit charcoal, mica and natural blue. 3 pigments are from the urban spring-fed lake that the painting attempts to describe, surrounded by boreal hills, as the ice freezes. The painting is loose, almost like calligraphy.
January 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM