Great day at the studio today, making inks from hedgerow plants 🌿

#makeink #botanicalink #naturaldye

Added "Make Ink" to my gardening booklist!
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#booksky #MakeInk #Gardening

Freedom. All locally foraged: walnut ink and paint made of ochres, clays, marine exoskeletons.
#earthpigments #botanicalinks #makeink #locallyforaged #handmadepaint #freedom #letgo

tanks imb rilly makeink an effurt

Another one of West Quoddy Head this one using the full range of my inks- iron acorn, acorn, and walnut. Loads of layers on this one and I like what the iron acorn does in the sky really digging the walnut ink and its color. #makeink #mixedmedia

Here’s some of what you can expect from the ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ A thread 🧵

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#spéirghorm #spéirgorm #naturaldye #naturalpigment #makeink

A new passion for me last year. Learning to #makeink. This is all the same ink. Made from buckthorn berries. The color changes from blue to yellow as the alkalinity of the ink increases. I wish I’d stopped at that beautiful green. There’s always next years crop.

And if you get inspired to join us in Antrim for the Archipelago Festival of Colour, there are only 6 all-weekend tickets left and the reduced early bird pricing expires on Friday at midnight! 👀

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#naturaldye #makeink #naturalpigments

Here’s what you can expect at this year’s ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour!✨ 👇🏽

All-weekend and Sunday-only tickets are now available at festivalofcolour.co See you there? 🎪🌈✨

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#spéirghorm #spéirgorm #naturaldyes #naturalpigment #makeink

Also here’s the yellow ink which was its own separate process #makeink

Postgame analysis: Probably should have ground the charcoal with a pestle (I don’t own one) instead of a food grinder cause I ended up with shards instead of dust which has made my ink a little grainy. But this was not a bad first experiment! #makeink