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Mushroom Pigments

Once the mushroom pigment is isolated in dry powder form or suspended in water, it may be made into balls, cakes, pastels, chalks, oil or water based paints, casein inks, or encaustic. Miriam developed and explored these mediums to create art works, such as her wood block prints.

Here are pigment examples from the book, Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments & Myco-Stix, by Miriam C. Rice which explains the process in detail: