Its Winter 2019 and after years of happily living life in the yurt (built and moved in 2012!!) homesteading, mushrooms learning and healing through farming – I am renewed and inspired to share this clay paint recipe from A Year Of Mud:

1 part screened clay

(1 part fine sand) i did not add sand

1 part wheat paste

Want to see how we build this cob stove? See how we cobbed the woodstove with the help of oli. But I made way more than I need when I followed a year of mud recipe.

SO this time around I will be making just enough for 1 stove so read below for my recipe proportions:

1.Wheat Paste Recipe for Cobbed Wood Stove.

Boil 1/3 Cup water

Meanwhile…

Stir 1/8 Cup White Flour

+ 1/6 Cup Cold Water

Then…

Add Paste to Boiling water and stir over/medium heat while it thickens. Cool.

2. Mix in equal part Clay

3. Add metal oxides for color

The following is for your reference but mostly for my own so i can understand the recipe for future projects. Enjoy!

SO why am I repainting? Its time to repaint since the paint fro 2 year ago is looking shabby and its chipped and some black stains have appeared from the fire.

A Year of Mud’s recipe above calls for 7 cups of wheat mash alone. So if with equal parts that would make 7 cups wheat paste, 7 cups sand, (but i dont want sand), 7 cups clay = 21 cups!

“Bring 4 cups of water to a boil. While water heats up, add 1 cup white flour to 2 cups cold water. Stir well to remove chunks. Once 4 cups of water comes to a boil, add water & flour mixture, and stir well. Continue to stir over low/medium heat while the mixture thickens, and be careful not to burn the bottom. Once the liquid is thickened, remove from heat.”

SO rather than 21 cups I think I only want 3 cups total paint so ill only need approximately 1/7th of the above recipe and thats how i came up with the proportions above!

Are you painting your cob stove? Let me know how its going!

Happy Cobbing,

Sarah Louise