Making Ink from Plants

Making Ink from Plants with Erin MacKeen
Saturday June 20, 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Plants are an abundant source of colour that be found as close as our own kitchens. Learning how to extract colour from these natural sources is a fun and meaningful way to create your own art materials.

Spend an afternoon with Erin learning the process for making inks from kitchen scraps: onion skins, rosemary, and turmeric. She will step you through the equipment you’ll need, how to treat your dye materials to coax colour from them, and how to prepare what you extract for use as an ink. Pre-made samples of inks will be provided so that you can experiment with them and seehow they work on different papers with various tools.

All materials are provided.

About your Instructor:

Erin MacKeen is an artist, educator, tarot reader, and member of the ARTiculations team who works in cooperative and artist-run spaces helping people engage with the creative process and learn how to make things. She is an interdisciplinary artist who plays with a variety of methods and materials that include: screen printing, fibre arts, sculpting, drawing, painting, and making her own colour for dyes and inks. Her work is primarily concerned with collective care: how we connect to the natural world and ourselves by
building communities of practice.

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All ARTiculations workshops require advance registration, unless otherwise noted. In the event of insufficient enrolment, registrants will be notified prior to the workshop start date and a full refund will be given. No refunds/credits will be provided for withdrawal fewer than five business days prior to the start of class. ARTiculations does not provide make-up classes or substitutions. This policy is subject to change without notice.