Case Study — Material Research
The Experimental Paint Archive
An online archive documenting how unconventional fine art materials are made from scratch — reused materials, biomaterials, earth pigments.
What I Did
An ongoing archive built to document and share recipes for unconventional fine art materials made from scratch, including reused materials, biomaterials, and earth pigments. Making fine art materials has historically carried financial, physical, and environmental hazards. The archive documents techniques for minimizing all three, iterating on the conventional pigment + binder + liquid vehicle formula.
Press
Designboom — Open-source paint archive: reusable biomaterials & earth pigments in fine art →
Biofuels Digest — New York artist creates sustainable paint recipe repository →
Free York — Sophia Collender's Experimental Paint Archive challenges traditional art materials →
BurningManToday — Artist creates open database of sustainable paint recipes →