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Botanical Printmaking with Plant's Juices

Learn to create prints right from your kitchen using plants and spices like spinach or turmeric and explore pre-history of photography!
10 Students
Online
£10 pp
1hr
Beginner
What happens in this class?

*Please note although this workshop doesn't include materials, you have everything you need to complete it in your kitchen!

This short but compact workshop will introduce you to a very unique anthotype printmaking process discovered in 1842 using just paper and crushed flower petals or plant juices like turmeric or spinach to create botanical images or recently even photographs! I will teach you how to prepare your own emulsion and use the skills you have learned here to create your own art.

Session includes:

  • Live demo that includes interactive session with participants
  • Fascinating history facts on anthotype process and…
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Things to remember

What you will need: 1. Pestle and mortar or a blender 2. Plants for creating the printing juice-best results: spinach, turmeric(powder or root), beetroot, berries plus some water water 2. Brush or cotton wool balls/pads 3. Hair Dryer 4. Window (preferably sunny!) Or access to a garden…

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What you will need
  • Pestle and mortar (or blender)
  • Plants: spinach, turmeric, beetroot
  • Brush

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Age Requirement

12
All students under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

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Your Teacher

Polish photographer currently based in London utilizing historical photographic technique of wet plate collodion. Her works has been subject of several solo and group exhibition around the world. As an educator, leading alternative and historical photographic techniques workshops. Collaborated with various acclaimed art institutions and galleries, such as British Museum, University of Arts London and more.

The idea of alternative workshops is to bring to the wider public -adults, children, seniors- range of workshops which aim to raise awareness about very beginnings of photography and encourage experimenting with them in most creative way. Whether experienced or not, workshops are tailored…

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