Foraging For Color – Natural Inks – Aug 3, 2025

$125.00

Natural inks offer an intense and unique color range that watercolors cannot achieve. Many natural materials work well as ink but not as watercolor, and we will learn to differentiate these qualities in this workshop. Starting with foraged materials, we will make dye-based inks from start to finish. We will extend the color range by manipulating pH, mixing in minerals, and combining multiple pigments. You will leave with six unique 1 oz ink bottles made together during the workshop.

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Foraging For Color – Natural Inks

Instructor – Dr. Alison Webb – biologist & artist

August 3rd, 2025

Fee 125.00

10 am – 4 PM

Class size – 12

Location Cultus Bay Gardens

Bring your lunch and be treated to homemade pie and beverages from Mary Fisher

Techniques covered in this workshop include identifying sources of color in nature, making dye-based inks, making lake pigment-based inks, ink binder recipes, extending the color range with iron, copper, & pH, and making UV reactive mushroom ink!

Foraging For Color – Alison Webb

 

Alison Webb is a biologist that went from academia to offering workshops in both mushroom id, felting and making paint from natural materials. 

 

 

 

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