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Calligraphink: Making Botanical Dyes- and Powder-based Natural Inks For Pointed Pen Calligraphy
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About Calligraphink: Making Botanical Dyes- and Powder-based Natural Inks For Pointed Pen Calligraphy
A Warm Welcome To Creating Natural Inks For Calligraphy
Introduction To Making Natural Inks Using Dyes and Powders
Tools & Materials For Making Natural Inks From Dyes
Agent: Our Star Ingredient - Butterfly Blue Pea Flower
A Note On Solubility Of Natural Ingredients
Cleaning Your Tools
What Happens When You Don't Use Preservatives For Inks
Bath Stage: Colour Extraction (Butterfly Blue Pea)
Combine Stage: Additives With Salt & Vinegar
Making Gum Arabic Solution
The Effect Of Adding Gum Arabic
Combine Stage: Make Your Natural Ink Sparkle!
Checking For Light-Fastness and Permanence of Ink
Combine Stage: Creating Powder-Based Inks With Red Yeast Rice Powder
Thank You! And Your Class Project
What You Will Learn?
- Create your own unique natural inks using dyes from botanicals. Calligraphers, if you are already creating customised stationery with your beautiful calligraphy, why not level it up a notch by creating your own natural inks? In this 40-min class, Joy will teach you how to transform foraged materials like flowers or botanical ingredients, into natural inks that you can further customise by adding special touches like incorporating illuminescent materials..
- Creating natural inks not only enhance your relationship with the natural world around you, but also help you develop mindfulness and a greater appreciation of your own local flora and fauna unique to your neighborhoods..
- Using a simple and clear A-B-C-D process of Agents-Bath-Combine-Design, you will be equipped with the basics of the ink-making process that you can utilise for turning plants into pigments on paper, which you can adapt to your own environments..
- What You'll Learn.
- Also included: A handout covering the steps of both the extraction-based method (from butterfy blue pea flower), and the dye-based methods (from red yeast rice powder) are provided for you to refer to as a complement to the videos..
- What You'll Be Creating.
- Let's create natural inks with joy!.