made with hopi black dye sunflower

004 - umbra watercolor ink

Colors: shades of steely grey, bright pink, bright green, light purple, and blue grey

Notes: lightfastness is likely poor, based only on the fact that blue/purple dyes generally are, but testing is needed.

Ecology: Hopi Black Dye Sunflowers help restore soil, and provide sustenance for a large range of birds and small mammals.

Magic: Black Sunflowers symbolize fertility, harvest, abundance, and provision.

The color swatches above illustrate the watercolor ink on its own, and with different modifiers painted on top. Swatches, in order: unmodified, sun, moon, mercury, mars.

There may be color variance in color swatches due to computer monitors and phone screens. Photos were taken in natural light.

Tutorial coming soon.