The Creation of Buddhist Lanna Paintings by Using Natural Materials and Minerals to Create Contemporary Art

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to synthesize the knowledge of color materials and natural minerals in Lanna Buddhist painting, 2) to create techniques, methods and processes from colors, materials, natural minerals and Lanna Buddhist paintings to create academic learning in creative arts, 3) to present innovative, creative art techniques in Lanna Buddhist painting. This research is action research and qualitative research to lead to the creation of Lanna Buddhist paintings from natural materials and minerals to promote learning activities and presentation of innovative creative art techniques in Lanna Buddhist painting.
The results were found that:
1. The knowledge of color Materials and natural minerals used in Lanna Buddhist painting were natural colors being known to man and applied colors derived from plants, animals, soil and minerals by using trial and error research for accessing to the uniqueness of true color reproduction.
2. The process of extracting colors and converting to be color powder there was a method for extracting colored water from natural coloring agents by boiling. Evaporation to extract color water; pounding, smashing or blending plants to produce color. Filtering the colored water and the process of preparing natural pigments by drying method Preparation of pigments using absorbent salts and the preparation of pigments by salt precipitation method.
3. Innovative creative color art techniques presented activities to learn innovative creative color art techniques in Lanna Buddhist painting and introduced new products from the extraction of colors from cash crops in Lanna to become concrete, tangible, and usable.