Natural materials and mineral pigments
I prefer working with natural materials, which are fair traded and if possible organic.
Thangkas are painted on fair trade silk or cotton, in some cases I use a wooden basis for my art.
These wooden panels come from a local carpenter, who sells fine quality wood from sustainable sources.
At the moment I am looking for a distributor for fair trade leaf gold.
As a binding material I use egg, size or acrylics. The used binder is adjusted to the demands of the
further location of the piece of art. This is why I still use acrylics under some circumstances.
Most of the pigments I use come from plants, minerals or earth. I obtain my pigments from a
German pigment mill or grind them by myself. Synthetic colors are rarely used.
Streching the canvas
The birth of a picture: sewing and stretching the canvas into a wooden frame