Something I wasn’t aware of previously, and something that would’ve been really interesting to pursue as a medium to work with. From my research, I can buy pigments like the below online. I would imagine they would behave much like watercolour paint. There are no reliable published statistics on the size of the colour however, according to global industry analysts; the demand for organic pigments and dyes is expected to reach almost 18 million tons by 2023.
Among the various available pigments, the carotenoids alone were estimated to reach £1.4 billion by 2018. Filamentous fungi are known to produce an extraordinary range of pigments such as carotenoids, melanins, flavins, phenazines, quinones, monascins, violacein, and indigo. The use of Monascus for ang-kak (red mold rice) production is the oldest recorded use of fungal pigment. Monascus produce yellow (ankaflavine, monascine), orange (rubropunctatine, monascorubrine), and purple (rubropunctamine, monascorubramine) pigments which are often encountered in Oriental foods, especially in Southern China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Currently, more than 50 Monascus pigments have been identified and studied. The potential for fungal and microbial pigments could be a huge threat to pigments currently obtained by animal/insect means and be a powerful component in the sustainable movement currently gripping society extending to fashion and art with the encouragement from the urgency of climate change and global crisis.
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