In this 6-hour hands-on workshop, students will learn to make their own (oil-based) printmaking inks from scratch! Participants will learn the basics of making their own paints, covering topics such as pigments, binders, fillers, and modifiers. This hands-on workshop is intended to give artists a more tactile relationship with their materials and mediums. By making our own inks, we can begin to explore nuanced ways to edit or modify recipes to better suit individual printmaking applications.
In the first session, students will learn introductory paint-making techniques by mixing and mulling inks with an array of provided dry pigments, oil-based binders, and mediums. Students will print with their own inks in the following session. Participants are welcome to bring pre-existing plates to test their inks. At the end of the workshop, each student can take a small jar of ink they made during the class.