Tag: ink

Avocado Ink

Avocado Ink

Reading Time: 3 minutes Prompted by my continual playing with natural pigments in my paints, I made a batch of Avocado ink the other day. This is perhaps one of the better known vegetable dyes, creating a relatively stable and lightfast dusty pink colour. I’ve brewed up a couple 

Sumi-e Inspired

Sumi-e Inspired

Reading Time: 3 minutes I do sometimes have to admit that I am a compulsive buyer of anything arty that looks interesting, even if I have no idea what I intend to do with it. But every now and again it does mean I escape my fixation with watercolours 

More Brusho

More Brusho

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Some further experiments with brusho, I have been playing more with using it like inks and painting stems and grasses.

Lino Printing Experiments

Lino Printing Experiments

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve ben planning this idea mentally for some time. As a child I have a lovely book of Joan Aitken stories illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski in his absolutely amazing silhouette style. I’ve always loved that style and as a child attempted to replicate it many 

Brusho

Brusho

Reading Time: 2 minutes I found this amazing stuff via Fred Aldous, when I was researching things I could spend a lovely £100 Voucher on. Brusho Crystal Colour is a powdered ink pigment which coems in a number of colours – and (especially as it is incredibly cheap) it