Imagine if the twigs, leaves, and bits of metal on the streets around you weren't waste but ingredients for a rich palette of unfolding colour. Imagine that the oldest tool of communication -- ink -- could vibrate, grow crystals, or change colour on the page.
Part art book and part how-to, Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking is a colour journey that redefines our everyday understanding of ink, and, in the process, teaches us to reclaim a lost urban wilderness. It's a journey that emboldens readers to get their hands dirty foraging for colour in woodlands, back alleys, and city parks; mixing pigments in the kitchen; and testing out their homemade colours on paper in the studio. Clear step-by-step (and colour-by-colour) recipes draw on medieval alchemy, domestic science, and ecological cookery. Make Ink offers a new framework for thinking about the vital connection between ink, language, and art.
- 193 pages
- 19.5cm x 24cm
- English
- Abrams (2018)
- ISBN 9781419732430