Drawn From Our Ancestors - Online Demonstrations With Caroline Ross - Recordings Available
Drawn From Our Ancestors: quill pens, brushes, oak gall inks and more traditional drawing materials.
Two two hour live class recordings and a five page PDF resource pack available until the 30th September
This course will give you everything you need to recreate the scriptorium sound in the comfort of your own home. Using simple tools, we will make traditional black and brown inks with oak galls and other tannins, with both a foraged and a refined studio technique. We will then make quill pens from feathers and reeds, traditional illuminator's brushes from the offcuts of the quill feathers and improvised and unusual brushes and drawing tools from a host of foraged, found and repurposed materials from your home and garden. You may never look at a stick the same again. There will be ample time for questions and a demonstration of many kinds of tools, surfaces and inks.
Learning Resources
Learning Resources will be provided including a five page PDF with reading list, basic instructions of what was covered as well as a glossary of any unfamiliar terms.
About Caroline Ross/Found And Ground
I am a natural materials artist and maker from Dorset, England. I forage for earth colour and wild materials, refine pigments, make paints and as well as making my art from paints I make, and teaching people how to make them, too. It is important to me that people rediscover their place in the wild and reconnect to the land where they live. By ethically sourcing and using materials of earth, as well as discarded, reused and repurposed things, we foster a sense of place, leave a lighter footprint, and we can make our art where Earth matters. My debut book ‘Found and Ground, a practical guide to making your own foraged paints’ with Search Press is now available. I am a member of the Wilderness Art Collective, and am part of the Dark Mountain Collective, regularly contributing to their books and events since 2015. I teach in person courses in UK, Europe and USA.
www.foundandground.com Instagram: @foundandground
Articles on subjects such as Tao, the embodied life, and art where earth matters, each week at Uncivil Savant - www.carolineross.substack.com
Caroline's book containing all the paint recipes, guides on foraging for materials and ink making is called ‘Found and Ground’