Drawn from the Wild - Caroline Ross

Drawn from the Wild by Caroline Ross is a practical guide to making your own foraged art materials. This paperback edition is published by Search Press.

Key details

• Author: Caroline Ross
• Subtitle: A practical guide to making your own foraged art materials
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 128
• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 13 June 2025

Synopsis

Created as a sequel to Found and Ground, this hands-on book explores both ancient and contemporary ways to “re-wild” an art practice by turning foraged, found, discarded or repurposed materials into drawing media. Ross guides you through making richly pigmented pastels, smoke-black charcoal and deep, lightfast inks, with clear step-by-step instruction throughout.

Alongside advice on safe, ethical foraging and urban scavenging, you’ll find practical guidance on preparing pigments, producing hard and soft pastels, and creating charcoal by assessing wood types, refining sticks and burning. The book also covers tannin, iron gall and botanical inks, making a quill pen and brush, working on surfaces such as found paper, leather and bark, and constructing a sewn sketchbook, before closing with longer-lasting materials including metalpoint. Illustrated with Ross’s own artwork and contributions from artists from different cultures and parts of the world, it is suited to ecologically aware artists across a range of skill levels.

Further details

• Dimensions: 216 x 280 x 6 mm
• Illustrations: 300 colour illustrations
• ISBN: 9781800922594

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