Indian Pokeweed

Phytolacca Acinosa: a new plant in the ink garden which will hopefully produce a red/brown ink from its berries later in the season.

Tea Time

Colour extracted from tea leaves:

green tea, redbush, black, nettle fennel & peppermint, orange peel cloves and cinnamon

Three blackcurrant bushes have been planted in the ink garden.

The first of our berry bushes.

Set up for a test on how light fast some of the inks are: testing green tea, onion skin, beetroot, elder berry, and red cabbage.

A sheet of water colour paper has been coloured with the inks then cut into two strips which have been folded into a concertina.

One of these will be left open in the workshop, whilst the other is folded up, bound and kept in a drawer.

Compare results after a year…..

A new system to filter out the gunk – paper coffee filters in a cup
Sort of works but takes a long time.