Plant and Ink - Judith Rosema

Plant and Ink by Judith Rosema is a practical guide to making vibrant inks from plants and flowers. This paperback edition includes seasonal recipes and step-by-step instruction for extracting, storing and using plant-based colour.

Key details

• Author: Judith Rosema
• Subtitle: Make Your Own Plant-based Ink
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 192
• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 11 April 2025

Synopsis

Designed to make natural colour approachable, this beginner-friendly book shows how to extract and store plant-based inks, noted for their rich tones and distinctive results. It presents 27 seasonal plant recipes that produce 49 ink colours, arranged to follow the creative year, from spring daffodils and summer poppies to autumn sage and winter hazel.

Each recipe includes a short guide to the plant, information on the ink’s lightfastness, clear written instructions, and visuals that demonstrate the colours you can achieve, alongside practical tips for working with plant-based ink. For those who enjoy exploring different media, it also explains how to turn these recipes into pigments and combine them with binders to make oil paint, egg tempera, watercolour, gouache, chalk pastel and screen-printing ink, making it suitable for hobby artists and art students.

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