Description
Unleash your inner alchemist and stir up creativity through ink-making. In this immersive workshop, you'll delve into the fascinating world of inks and craft your own vibrant concoctions from scratch using natural ingredients. Steeping berries to create a rich crimson/purple ink, simmering red cabbage to release its blue hues (and playing with its ph to get new colours), or coaxing buttery yellow from alder buckthorn bark; these are just some of the rich, gentle colours that you – and nature can produce. Inks are liquids or pastes that contain colour. Many trees, plants and minerals can be used to make ink; from the soil to the roots, from the nuts to the leaves to the flowers and the fruits, providing different hues through the seasons. Inks share common roots of myth, and methods with dye-making, though ink-making produces more intense colour. Natural inks are alive and can vary subtly on different papers and as they dry. Timings and amounts are approximate – and there’s a fair bit of testing and trying out. This workshop will show you how to produce simple inks from vegetables/fruits, chalk and charcoal, earth, bark and galls, using different processes. Weather permitting, we’ll spend some time first foraging for some plant materials to make your ink with, including some early spring wildflowers.
What's included in the price?
• Discover some of the many processes of ink-making, from preparation, to extracting colour, to preserving your inks and ways of working with them. • Learn about the historical/cultural significance of some natural inks, and the basic principles of colour theory. • Explore a variety of natural materials, such as plants, galls, earth pigments, berries, and minerals, and their hidden colour potential. What you'll take away with you: • A set of your own handmade inks – plus the chance to buy some pre-bottled inks from Land Marks. • Skills and insights into the art and science of ink making so you’ll be able to experiment and create them at home. • A renewed connection with nature.
Duration
6 hours
Cancellation policy
Medium - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 4 weeks before the course starts
Maker
Suitable for
- Adults
- Seniors
- Teenagers
- Public transport
- Suitable for beginners
- Intermediate level
FAQs
No - this course is suitable for beginners or intermediate levels
The garden studio is accessed via a flagstone path which is slightly uneven. The garden does have bumpy and uneven parts- also plant growth may limit access to some areas.
All tools and materials will be provided.
You can park very close - normally there are spaces outside my house. Faversham station is 10 mins walk.
Venue
