How I Made This: Stella Maria Baer’s Earth Pigment Art

Inspiration can come with an accident: “I was painting in a canyon when, towards the end of the day, a big gust of wind came up and knocked the easel into the dirt. At first I was devastated,” says painter and photographer Stella Maria Baer. “But then I realized the landscape itself could be part of a painting.”
Six years later, all the pigments that Baer works with are ones that she has made herself. “I painted out of tubes for many years,” she says. It&rsquo