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Plant and Ink

Make Your Own Plant-based Ink

Judith Rosema

Description

Create a rainbow of vibrant, natural inks from the plants and flowers around you.

Plant-based inks are richer in colour than synthetic inks, producing a wide range of tones and unique, stunning visual results; extracting and storing these inks ready for use is made simple in this beginner-friendly book. Discover:

Warm yellows from daffodils
Rich reds, pinks and indigo from poppies
Light blue and mint green from sage
Warm orangey-browns from hazel

Each recipe contains a guide to the plant used, the lightfastness of the ink created, written step-by-step instructions for extracting the ink and beautiful visuals to illustrate the colours available. Handy tips are also included for working with plant-based ink.

For artists who like to work with different mediums, the book also includes guides to creating pigments from your plant recipes, then using different binders to create oil paint, egg tempera, watercolour, gouache, chalk pastel and screen-printing ink.