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Berry Inks

"What are you cooking?" My boyfriend asked. "I'm making some berry inks, of course!" I answered.

Cooking the berries and the leaves to extract the colour for the inks. I've added a bit of vinegar to stabilize the colour, which might slow down the colour fading too.

Testing of inks and left over pulp on paper.

Can't find which berry this is. Anyone?

Elderberry

Dried brown plant of unknown name. Do you know it?

Blackberry.

Purple Loosestrife.

Thistle seeds.

Thistle seeds.

Here you can see how different the colours look compared to the testing on the image higher up. The blackberry changed much darker and the top line with elderberry darkened but kept its red accents. The yellow tea like stains are from on the right mixed leaves and on the left a random mix.

Mixed leaf selection.

Now I need to use the inks, more about that soon, cheers!

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Silvia Krupinska
Organic Sculptor 

 

I am an artist living in Leytonstone specialising in organic sculpture and communication about art and nature. The ideas and forms of my current practice revolve around the understanding of rivers, from their immediate ecosystems to how they influence people and local habitats.  The Rivers Project’s aim is to create a discussion about the environment, rivers, water and nature. I hope to contribute to the ever-growing movement of people standing up and asking questions: what can we do to help, what can we do to change things in relation to the environment and how we think of it? I remain neutral and apolitical, reporting my personal visions with supporting science and art-based research as part of my creative stimulus. I'm exploring how we relate to the rivers’ environments and areas that support their systems through our experiences. 

 

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