Exploring Handmade Ink
6 Week Class | Available
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 look at how to collect materials to make our own ink and use that ink to create drawings. Each season holds new materials and colours to work with depending on what is in bloom, easy to harvest and available to us. Here, we have two art practices: making materials as an art practice, and using those materials to draw. We will investigate how this ink is different from other materials and utilize it in our work. Projects will include prompts about where we live, and how to draw using “grounds and accents.” As a class, we will share our ink samples to create our own catalogue of inks. Creating one’s own art materials is a journey in trial and error - a beautiful process to create art from!
This course is excellent for all levels however, some drawing experience is always useful.
Base Tuition: $333 + Material Fee: $10 = $343 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Drawing with a brush and dip pen using experimental ink materials
- Natural ink making techniques
- Experimentation with colour ingredients and one’s own art materials
- Some foraging & recognition of natural pigments within the season and one’s own environment, be it outdoors or in one’s kitchen or grocery store
- Sharing & receiving various ink outcomes - a class ‘catalog’ of inks
Kyla Brown
Kyla is a Toronto based artist, educator and writer, pedestrian and mother. She/they work in a project driven practice that includes the labour of care work, community based projects, subtle public interventions, drawing-installation and video work. Exploring the everyday, material practices and mapping, Brown’s drawings look at routines, and notions of place.
She has shown at the Khyber Centre for the Arts and the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Art Mur in Montreal, XEXE Gallery and Hang Man Gallery in Toronto, as well as DNA Artspace, ArtLab Gallery, and with McIntosh Gallery's community residency in London, ON. She earned a BFA from NSCAD University, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. She has taught adult and youth courses at the University of Western Ontario, Sheridan College, Art City of Toronto, the AGO, and the Toronto School of Art.