Ink Experiments

Ink Experiments
In fall 2023, I began creating my own homemade ink by following the guidelines of Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking by Jason Logan as well as some miscellaneous online recipes. (In years previous I had experimented with making pokeberry ink and had painted with it, but this was my first foray into delving into inkmaking at a more serious level.)
In this section, you'll find a gallery of photos of my experiments, which have thus far (as of 9/21/23) involved the following plants:
- Pokeberries
- Grapes
- Red dahlias
- Amaranth
- American wintergreen (teaberry)
- Slender scratchdaisy
- Treasure flower
- Wrinkleleaf goldenrod
- Siebold's vibernum
- Buckthorn berries
- Rowen berries
- Orange jewelweed
The painting Flight (pictured above) is the first painting I created using (almost) exclusively homemade inks (grape and pokeberry). I'll be posting more pieces and photos from my experiments as I continue.