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Making Ink with Natural & Foraged Materials

8 Week Class | Available

Adult: All Levels

April 30, 2024-June 18, 2024

10:00 AM-1:00 PM on Tue

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$392.00 CAD

Making ink is a very old and respected practice. Inks can be derived from many different pigmented materials that are natural and vibrant. The process can be a reconnection to the landscape we inhabit and an exploration of chemical and formal materials.

In this course, we will split our time between outside gathering materials and in the studio making our inks and experimenting with them. We will meet several times, outdoors, to forage together and exchange materials and techniques that we have discovered in our ink making process. Locations will be determined by the class and if you are unable to meet in Toronto park spaces, we can make other arrangements (if you have questions contact kyla.brown@tsa-art.com). The first part of the course focuses on creating inks and then using our inks to draw with them in the last few weeks of class. Creating one’s own art materials is a journey in trial and error - a beautiful process to create art from!

This course is suitable for all levels, however, drawing experience is always useful.

Base Tuition: $385 + Material Fee: $7 = Total  $392
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  • What You Will Learn:
    - Natural ink making techniques
    - Foraging & recognition of natural pigments
    - Experimentation with colour ingredients to make one’s own art materials
    - Sharing & receiving various ink outcomes - a class ‘catalogue’ of inks
    - Drawing with a brush using experimental ink materials
Kyla Brown

Kyla is a Toronto based artist, educator and writer with a background in drawing and painting. Exploring mapping as a material practice, Brown’s work focuses on navigating city space and daily or mundane processes. She works in a project driven practice that includes drawing, installation and video work. She also uses twitter as a forum to document durational travel and moving through public space. Kyla has shown in solo and group exhibitions in Halifax, London, ON, and Toronto galleries and art spaces, as well as residencies and community projects working with adults and youth. She earned her BFA from NSCAD University, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. Kyla has been an instructor at TSA since 2017.