the color journal

002 - Myth

made with crabapple leaves

  • warm yellow-orange, sand

    modified

    Sun - this modifier mutes the orange tones, allowing the yellow to shine through

    Moon - mutes the yellow tones, resulting in a peachy pink color

    Mercury - creates shades of goldenrod

    Mars - to be determined

  • lightfastness

    lightfastness is undetermined for this ink, but in general, the modifiers Mercury and Mars create longer lasting color.

  • Crabapples represent health, love, beauty, abundance, and immortality.

To create the color swatch, I use scraps of watercolor paper for each swatch. The horizontal stripes, from the top down, show 1-3 washes of ink, with each wash allowed to dry before the next application of ink.

Vertical Stripe 1 - Unmodified | 2 - Sun Modifier | 3 - Moon Modifier | 4 - Mercury Modifier | 5 - unmodified, Mars Modifier will be added soon.

To modify the ink, a single wash of modifier was applied in a vertical stripe once the base ink was allowed to dry.