CITY & COLOUR: Make Your Own Natural Ink
November 25 + 26
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Jason Logan
Materials Fee: $20
Maximum Students: 12
This workshop will begin with a FORAGE: the basics of finding and collecting natural pigment materials. Participants will be introduced to the foragers code, the role of time and place relating to the built and natural landscapes of Toronto on a foraging walk. On the walk we will talk and discover the essential ingredients for making ink from almost anything as well as a practical guide to kind of materials that traditionally have been used as natural dye or ink and how and where to find them in cities.
Then participants will MAKE & BOTTLE: with an introduction to a mother recipe for making ink along with the particulars of plant, mineral, and metals-based inks. As a group, we problem solve the various materials and test out our various methods on paper. By the end of the second day each participant will come away with a bottle of ink of their own creation. The bottle will contain both the lessons of this course and a coming together of the colour found at your feet and the spirit of the place where that colour came from.
November 25 + 26
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Jason Logan
Materials Fee: $20
Maximum Students: 12
This workshop will begin with a FORAGE: the basics of finding and collecting natural pigment materials. Participants will be introduced to the foragers code, the role of time and place relating to the built and natural landscapes of Toronto on a foraging walk. On the walk we will talk and discover the essential ingredients for making ink from almost anything as well as a practical guide to kind of materials that traditionally have been used as natural dye or ink and how and where to find them in cities.
Then participants will MAKE & BOTTLE: with an introduction to a mother recipe for making ink along with the particulars of plant, mineral, and metals-based inks. As a group, we problem solve the various materials and test out our various methods on paper. By the end of the second day each participant will come away with a bottle of ink of their own creation. The bottle will contain both the lessons of this course and a coming together of the colour found at your feet and the spirit of the place where that colour came from.
November 25 + 26
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Jason Logan
Materials Fee: $20
Maximum Students: 12
This workshop will begin with a FORAGE: the basics of finding and collecting natural pigment materials. Participants will be introduced to the foragers code, the role of time and place relating to the built and natural landscapes of Toronto on a foraging walk. On the walk we will talk and discover the essential ingredients for making ink from almost anything as well as a practical guide to kind of materials that traditionally have been used as natural dye or ink and how and where to find them in cities.
Then participants will MAKE & BOTTLE: with an introduction to a mother recipe for making ink along with the particulars of plant, mineral, and metals-based inks. As a group, we problem solve the various materials and test out our various methods on paper. By the end of the second day each participant will come away with a bottle of ink of their own creation. The bottle will contain both the lessons of this course and a coming together of the colour found at your feet and the spirit of the place where that colour came from.