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Getting your hands dirty, making art from mud and plants, and discovering that the earth has been teaching you all along. 🌿

Something changes when you get your hands in actual soil. Not craft clay, not decorative sand — real earth. The kind with things living in it, the kind that smells of rain and roots and deep, patient time. This month, we're going there together.

After March's gentle botanical introduction — the pressed flowers, the flower inks, the seeds set carefully in pots on windowsills — April asks us to go deeper. Past the pretty and into the mud itself. Earth pigments — ochre, umber, sienna, the colours of canyon walls and riverbanks — are some of the oldest art materials humans have ever used. When you paint with them, you're joining a conversation that has been going on for 40,000 years.

And those seeds you planted last month? It's time. Time to carry them outside, introduce them properly to the ground they'll live in, and trust the earth with what has been quietly sprouting in the shelter of your home. ✨

✨ INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

- Making Paint from the Earth — gather, dry, sift and grind your own earth pigments, step by step

- 6 Ways to Explore — botanical printing, mud resist, stone painting, seed packet grimoire pages, natural plant inks and earth pigment collage backgrounds

- From Altar to Earth — a planting-out ritual for your seedlings

- Set Up Your Earth Magic Studio — everything you need (most of it free, from outside)

- Earth-Based Divination — geomancy, botanical casting and a tarot earth spread

- 31 Daily Prompts — one earthy prompt for every day of April

- Earth magic correspondences, personal reflection prompts, recommended reading and journaling pages

🌙 WHAT YOU GET (instant digital download):

- 20-page A4 PDF zine packed with exercises, rituals, projects and inspiration for Art Witches

- A standard page-by-page version AND a print-at-home booklet version

To print the booklet: print double-sided (flip on the short edge), then fold in half — the pages are arranged to fall into the right order once folded.

Hand-created by me — an art witch of 20+ years. No rules, no "right way" — just gentle, playful creative magic.

Please note: digital download only. No refunds on digital items. For personal use only — not for resale or distribution.

Handmade in the UK by Sara Jane Art Magic.