Drawn from the Wild

A Practical Guide to Making Your Own Foraged Art Materials

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Re-wild your art practice, by transforming foraged and found materials into vibrant, sustainable drawing media, from richly pigmented pastels and smoke-black charcoal to deep, lightfast inks.‘If you love culture, but know in your bones you are also part of nature, like me, you’ll want to make your art practice more ecologically sound and sustainable.’ - Caroline RossThis stunning, practical book, sequel to the best-selling Found and Ground, contains both ancient and modern techniques for ‘rewilding’ your art practice. With hands-on advice and simple, step-by-step instruction, artist and author Caroline Ross shows you how to create beautiful, useful art supplies from wild and ancient materials – whether those materials are foraged, natural, discarded or repurposed.Inside the book you’ll discover:Advice on how to forage safely and ethically, as well as tips on scavenging in the urban environment and rewilding your art practice gradually;Practical, step-by-step instructions for using lump media, preparing pigments, and creating hard and soft pastels;A complete guide to creating charcoal, from assessing different wood types, refining your sticks and then a guide to burning;A guide to creating tannin, iron gall and botanical inks, plus instructions for making your own quill pen and brush;Surfaces on which to work, from found paper, leather and bark, to making your own sewn sketchbook;A final section on more permanent and long-lasting materials, such as metalpoint.Expansive, inclusive and ethically-aware, Caroline illustrates the book with her own inspirational artwork alongside that of other artistic contributors from different cultures and different parts of the world, with their own distinctive materials, approaches and uses of the same core techniques.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-06-13
Mått270 x 20 x 210 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor128
FörlagSearch Press Ltd
ISBN9781800922594

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Caroline Ross uses wild and traditional materials to make artworks from small illustrations to large murals. She also teaches people how to make the materials she herself uses. Having spent decades indoors in art and recording studios, Caroline spends as much as possible of her life outdoors, immersing herself in nature as she sources her materials and makes her work. Her first book, Found and Ground, was an enormous success, and has sold nearly 16k copies since May 2023. Visit her website www.foundandground.com and follow her on Instagram @foundandgroundMA Painting Chelsea School of Art 1996; BA (Hons) Fine Art Kingston University 1995; BTEC General Art and Design Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design 1991

Foreword by Stewart Lee 6Introduction 8Foraging 14Hands on 18Lump media 20Pastels 30Making soft pastels 32Making hard pastels 36Charcoal 48Wood, vine and bone 50Making charcoal 52Pen and ink 58Drawn to the dark 60Inks 64Making tannin inks 64Making botanical inks 72Pens and brushes 76 Making a quill pen 86Making brushes 104Surfaces 90Bark, leaves and more 92Sketchbooks 100Making sketchbooks 101Making your mark 106Permanence 108Making grounds for metalpoint 112Making oil charcoal 122Afterword 124Recommended reading 126Contributors and featured artists 126Index 128

If you go down to the woods today…you’re sure of some good supplies. I think it’s fair to say that only the most dedicated muesli-knitter is likely to source all their materials this way, however... Let’s get the elephant out of the room first, shall we? I do not for one moment think that you’re going to abandon your local art shop and start combing the forest floor for inks, colours and ‘brushes’. Nor should you. However, once upon a time that was exactly what you would have done, and those earth colours you love so much? Well. Drawn from the Wild by Caroline Ross will provide you with all the information you’re ever likely to need about making plant-based inks, pastels, pens and brushes, as well as surfaces you can draw and paint on. Do you need, or even want to? I think you’ll find that, whatever your requirements, these are instructive and worthwhile explorations of the natural world.