The colour range of soil is a paintbox of colour. With that in mind, I have matched shots of red soil with equivalent colours from the Farrow & Ball paint colour chart.
Mid-brown soil – F&B’s Dead Salmon [below]
Pink soil = F&B’s Book Room Red [below]
Ploughed field = F&B’s Blazer [below]
Red earth = F&B’s Rectory Red [below]
Recently ploughed field = F&B’s Setting Plaster [below]
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5 to remember
una caja de acuarelas – a paintbox
equivalente – equivalent
un gráfico – a chart
muerto/a – dead
una habitación – a room
Clever! 🙂
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Thx, it was fun to do! SD
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Brilliant idea! Do you know that you can also paint with soil? When we were in Andalucía last year on the way to Casares, I believe, we gathered some of the reddest soil I’d ever seen (outside of Kauai, HI), pounded it into powder and mixed it with water. Then I painted and the result was quite lovely. In Mexico, I met a man who painted with Nescafé instant coffee. Red dirt and coffee paint work well together. 😀
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That sounds amazing! I do know that in medieval times they made a kind of ink with earth, used for writing. SD
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Oh, wow, that would require a bit of mortar and pestle work. I love the idea of painting with what’s around. Onion skins, blueberries, a good Rioja.
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