Pigments, Colors & Other Stories

Pigments, Colors & Other Stories

About the Substack

An interdisciplinary look at color, art, cognition and the things that make us human.

Free Subscription Benefits

• Occasional public posts

Paid Subcription Benefits

• Access to the Pigment Guide posts: learn how to make your own pigments and other art materials from nature
• Subscriber-only chat: a learning community where you can ask and share anything about your pigment process with me
• Subscriber-only posts and full archive: deep dives into pigment and color research, material culture, aesthetics and symbolic thinking

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• €5 a month
• €50 a year

About María C.J

Art historian and pigments/color researcher. I write about material research 🧱 archeology 🏺prehistory 🦬 and human cognition 🧠