Announcement    Hello! We are back!!! When we took a break, we had a new baby! Now we have a big kid! In the meantime we have been teaching, gardening, growing pigments & fibers, and making art. We will be starting back with our Walnut ink first, but Iron Gall & watercolors will follow over the next few weeks. As always feel free to send us questions. Additionally, more watercolor pans will be up soon, and sets too. We are excited to be back!
Best,
Allyson and Jeremy
Belly of Flea Inks & Paints

Welcome to Belly of Flea Inks & Paints, a historical artist ink and watercolor supplier, est. 2002. We are committed to producing sustainable and non-toxic professional grade artist water media. We use organically home grown pigments. We also use organic plant, insect, and genuine earthen and mineral pigments to help fill in the gaps of what we cannot grow in the Belly of Flea mini-farm. We are dedicated to making safe art supplies that have little impact on the earth.

Marie Antoinette's favorite shade of reddish brown fabric was christened "Puce" the French word for flea. The name stuck and dyers soon offered hues called, "Belly of Flea", "Thigh of Flea", and "Blushing Flea". When we first started making inks, some of our very first colors were various browns including, oak gall, walnut, and pokeberry. The name seemed fitting. Belly of Flea is run by the husband and wife team, Jeremy Seth Taylor and Allyson Mellberg Taylor. We are working artists, gardeners, and teachers based in Charlottesville, Virginia.