Ink Making from Foraged Materials
3 Day Workshop | Registration opens 2026-04-14 12:00 PM
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 intensive, 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 begin to experiment with it. 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 that invites patience and experimentation.
Note: This class is introductory, some drawing experience is always useful.
$282 +
Material Fee: $20 =
$302 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Natural ink making processes
- Experimenting with colour ingredients to create ink materials
- Some basic foraging rules & 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 ‘catalogue’ 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.