Video Workshop: Ink-Making (+ optional kit)
£55.00
A quick 15 min course looking at fresh leaf extraction (from nettle )and a powder extract :) x
(This is a edited recording from a recent online class).
Learn to extract colour from local plants and extracts, to make botanical inks suitable for drawing, writing & painting.
You can use other locally foraged and easily found plants (Try things such as nettle, bracken or dock along with garden produce and herbs such as sage, kale, dandelion, herb robert and food waste items like avocado skins/pits, carrot tops, purple cabbage ends, onion skins, used coffee grinds/tea bags, pomegrante skins and fallen leaves from houseplants). The example we use in this video is nettle leaf.
And extract powders such as madder, cochineal and marigold can be used with this technique also.
You will learn to create inks from fresh + dry plant matter plus dye extract powders, use natural binders for a suitable consistancy and modify colours to create wider range of colours using simple household substances such as vinegar & lemon juice
These inks can be stored for several months and used as a base to make printing mediums for block and screen printing.
You will need:
Several stainless steel cooking pots, bowls and spoons
A heat source
Mark making tools eg dipping pens, quills, paintbrushes, sticks, feathers
Paper
Lemon or white vinegar eg apple cider vinegar
Soda ash
Salt or essntial oil eg clove oil
Gum arabic (available from our online shop)
water
A selection of different fresh and chopped plants and waste foods (full list of suggested items provided after booking)
stainless steel seive
cheesecloth
jug or jar
ferrous sulphate or homemade iron water (see recipe in my book)
Digital weighing scale
Please allow 1-2 working days for video link to be emailed to the email address registered at check-out.
You may be interested in the ink-making kit and signed copy of my book as a bundle - see prices below :)
Prices:
Video workshop only £55
Video workshop + INK DRAWING KIT + uk shipping £117
Video workshop + INK DRAWING KIT + intl shipping £137
Video workshop + INK DRAWING KIT + BOOK + uk shipping £152
Video workshop + INK DRAWING KIT + BOOK + intl shipping £172
If you have questions and for more info, please email [email protected]
