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Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking by Jason Logan
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B34
$35.00
Make Ink invites you to explore color at its source. This beautifully illustrated book shows how everyday plants, berries, and minerals can be transformed into rich, expressive inks, perfect for artists, calligraphers, and anyone drawn to handmade, sustainable creative practices.
Written by Jason Logan, founder of the Toronto Ink Company, the book offers clear, step-by-step guidance on foraging for materials, preparing pigments, and mixing your own natural inks. The chapters move from the fundamentals to hands-on experimentation, covering topics such as what ink is and how it’s made, basic ink recipes, color variations, and best practices for testing ink on paper. With a foreword by Booker Prize–winning author Michael Ondaatje, this book is an invitation to bring your work to life with color drawn directly from the earth.
“It started with a strange little bottle of brown ink . . . when I got it home, I really liked the way it worked; it was a pale caramel-brown when mixed with water and used as a background wash, but it darkened to an almost mahogany-black when brushed on in layers. I filled my sketchbook and used up the bottle so quickly I went back to the shop to buy more. But the shelf was empty . . . For years I searched for that bottle, finding the odd person here and there making small batches of walnut ink, but never that same one.” —Jason Logan, Introduction.
Hardcover; 193 pages; 7.5” x 9.5”
Make Ink invites you to explore color at its source. This beautifully illustrated book shows how everyday plants, berries, and minerals can be transformed into rich, expressive inks, perfect for artists, calligraphers, and anyone drawn to handmade, sustainable creative practices.
Written by Jason Logan, founder of the Toronto Ink Company, the book offers clear, step-by-step guidance on foraging for materials, preparing pigments, and mixing your own natural inks. The chapters move from the fundamentals to hands-on experimentation, covering topics such as what ink is and how it’s made, basic ink recipes, color variations, and best practices for testing ink on paper. With a foreword by Booker Prize–winning author Michael Ondaatje, this book is an invitation to bring your work to life with color drawn directly from the earth.
“It started with a strange little bottle of brown ink . . . when I got it home, I really liked the way it worked; it was a pale caramel-brown when mixed with water and used as a background wash, but it darkened to an almost mahogany-black when brushed on in layers. I filled my sketchbook and used up the bottle so quickly I went back to the shop to buy more. But the shelf was empty . . . For years I searched for that bottle, finding the odd person here and there making small batches of walnut ink, but never that same one.” —Jason Logan, Introduction.
Hardcover; 193 pages; 7.5” x 9.5”
| Binding | Glue |
| Skill Level | Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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