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 — reused materials, biomaterials, and earth pigments — made from scratch. The project documents techniques for minimizing the financial, physical, and environmental hazards that have historically come with making fine art materials, 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 →