Leaves on paper, introduction to botanical contact printing, material, equipment, simple mordanting
Welcome to my "Leaves on paper" Botanical contact printing in 12 lessons.
In this course I will show you how to create wonderful prints on paper using some basic concepts that will give you more and more control over your process and results. With my technique each lesson will give you more control and understanding about the process. With each lesson you will learn how to read your work and plan the next. We will compare results and make sure to understand out outcome.
You will be able to test with the ingredients I am suggesting and may be add some of your own. Because you all come from different locations your local resources will be different and so will your results in some respect.
Beginner or not we start with the beginning !
I will approach this method as if everyone in this group was a beginner. It is easier for me to share that way so we all have the same basis. So if you know a little already... just be patient and keep paying attention some of the details I am sharing here even small make a bit difference in the method and its result.
In this lesson, I will tell you what this course is about, what we will be using and how we will process. I will give you advice on how to simple mordant some of the paper we will print on.
Now what is Botanical Contact Printing... and how will this course work!
It is a way to create natural prints using Botanical material (leaves, flowers, other elements found in nature) and Natural dyes using the help of mordants (Alum and Ferrous) but no addition of colours. We will only use natural colours coming from the botanical elements in our process. We will use heat and humidity in the process to allow the transfer of colour over from the botanical element to the substrate (that is the paper we print on). Some times we will steam and sometimes we will simmer. Both techniques work but they give different results. In the process we will use mordants to help.
What mordants and why:
Mordants are mineral salts that help you
I use only safe mordants in my process, that means mineral salts that dissolve, are used in "normal life" and can be disposed off without causing pollution.
Mordants are
. those are Alum in two forms (PAS, potassium aluminium sulphate and AA, Aluminium Acetate) and Ferrous (Ferrous sulphate).
Alum... I choose to use Alum in my process because a lot of the botanical I use to print with are in dye terms "adjective" that means they
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