Foraged and Found: Making Natural Art Materials
Lucy and Edward of Old Mill Arts will guide you through various skills and processes involved in making your own high quality, nature based art materials on this four day-long workshop at Forgan Arts.
About Foraged and Found: Making Natural Art Materials
Each day you will be both crafting and making with threads of colour theory, history and context woven throughout the sessions, relating to each new material created.
This workshop is suitable for beginners who want to try making art materials, and for those who have already begun their journey with making natural art materials, but would like to refine their skills, or learn further skills.
Day 1: Foraged pigments and wild clay
Working with charcoals in the morning, we will be testing the qualities of different types of wood, foraging for materials on site. Through drawing and creating ‘char’ black ink and paints with charcoaled pine cones we will move into the afternoon session. In the afternoon we will begin thinking about wild pigment processing – discussing what they are, and how to source sustainable, non-toxic pigments for painting and drawing. From here, we will turn our attentions to wild clay – forming wild clay vessels for inks and paints.
Day 2: Making pastels from earth and plant colours
In the morning we will focus on pastel making with wild pigments, adding earth and plant pigments. This session will use natural and forged materials to inform our palette. In the afternoon, we will turn our attention to creating artist’s crayons and oil pastels with wild, earth, non toxic and plant pigments alongside creating pastel holders for your studio.
Day 3: Inks and drawing tools from the landscape
The session will begin with us making reed and bamboo pens, moving onto creating a feather paintbrush which we will use with botanical inks made in class. As we move to the afternoon we will continue our botanical ink making before pit firing out wild clay vessels from Tuesday now they have air dried.
Day 4: Heritage and contemporary paint making
Paint making in the morning, exploring watercolours, poster paint, tempura and glair. In the afternoon we will be filling wild clay paint palettes and sealing the wild clay ink well. We will also be making a pocket sketchbook using handmade paper fro Old Mill Arts as a cover to take away.
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