As always, your post is very inspiring and beautiful. Oh, sure, now I have to find out how to get to Tokyo so that I can go to "the most amazing store in the world!!" Thanks for your work. Hoping the mobile ink lab comes to Portland, Oregon.
Hello. A great read. I’m saving walnuts. So we’ll see where it will lead. Maybe some wild grapes tomorrow. I’m interested in making natural colours. In my pottery days I used clay from our farm which turned into a glaze at stoneware temperatures.
I don’t have it near me but years ago I read about where colour comes from. I think it’s called Travels With My Paintbox by a British author. Looking forward to reading your letters on colour harvested from nature.
Thanks Helen. The Book that you are referring to is by Victoria Finlay called COLOUR: travels through the paintbox It really opened up a world of colour for a lot of people. Nothing beats your own experimentation though.
This is very, very inspiring! Your book, Make Ink is a bible of ink making and I decoured it cover to cover the minute I received it! A fellow Canadian living in England, near Oxford, and having lived in three African countries before this, I am influenced by the connection to nature shared by all of those cultures. Last year about this time during lockdown I experimented with ink making and posted daily using #inktober2020 and am now making crayons from soy wax and local soils. I am always amazed at the enthusiasm of my students, both children and teens, when using something from nature to make marks and colours on the paper. It is a very grounding experience and reunites us with nature. Much needed now more than ever. Looking forward to further inspiration and emails/posts from you as well as your book. Many thanks for being so inspiring and spreading ink love to the world! Warmest Canadian greetings, Carol 🎨
As always, your post is very inspiring and beautiful. Oh, sure, now I have to find out how to get to Tokyo so that I can go to "the most amazing store in the world!!" Thanks for your work. Hoping the mobile ink lab comes to Portland, Oregon.
I am looking for a way to get to Tokyo myself.
Hello. A great read. I’m saving walnuts. So we’ll see where it will lead. Maybe some wild grapes tomorrow. I’m interested in making natural colours. In my pottery days I used clay from our farm which turned into a glaze at stoneware temperatures.
I don’t have it near me but years ago I read about where colour comes from. I think it’s called Travels With My Paintbox by a British author. Looking forward to reading your letters on colour harvested from nature.
And yes I do own your book.
Thanks for the jump-start.
Thanks Helen. The Book that you are referring to is by Victoria Finlay called COLOUR: travels through the paintbox It really opened up a world of colour for a lot of people. Nothing beats your own experimentation though.
This is very, very inspiring! Your book, Make Ink is a bible of ink making and I decoured it cover to cover the minute I received it! A fellow Canadian living in England, near Oxford, and having lived in three African countries before this, I am influenced by the connection to nature shared by all of those cultures. Last year about this time during lockdown I experimented with ink making and posted daily using #inktober2020 and am now making crayons from soy wax and local soils. I am always amazed at the enthusiasm of my students, both children and teens, when using something from nature to make marks and colours on the paper. It is a very grounding experience and reunites us with nature. Much needed now more than ever. Looking forward to further inspiration and emails/posts from you as well as your book. Many thanks for being so inspiring and spreading ink love to the world! Warmest Canadian greetings, Carol 🎨
thanks Carol. There is a good scene in UK called Dialogues with Nature that I helped set up last summer might be worth looking into.
Thank you very much! I will look into that. Brilliant 👍🎨👍