Eco Printing onto Paper with Rachel Moore

Botanical printing, eco dyeing, eco printing...call it what you will, in this session Rachel will demonstrate how to harness the naturally forming compounds in leaves and flowers and transfer their form to print. It’s experimental and varies from plant to plant but the results can be stunning.

Rachel has been running print making workshops for children and adults since 2005. She usually holds workshops at her studio in Rochester High Street but since 2020 has taken a lot of them online. Techniques taught include screen printing, linocut, Gelli printing and cyanotype. Rachel likes to demystify printmaking and tries to show how, with just a few common items and cheats, you can create fabulous prints.

Find out more about Rachel’s work here👇🏼
https://www.facebook.com/iprintedthat/
https://www.iprintedthat.com/

For this session you will need👇🏼

• 20 sheets of paper - watercolour paper or thick paper 150gsm works best
• 2 cups of brown or white vinegar
• A spray bottle filled with water and 1tbsp of vinegar
• Botanicals:
Red, white or brown onion skins (the papery bit)
Eucalyptus leaves
Rose leaves and petals (dark in colour)
I’ve tried to stick to items that can be bought or are seasonally available but you can also use Comos flowers, Marigold flowers, Geranium leaves, Maples leaves, Sumac leaves.
• A few rusty metal objects eg. nails, tin can, springs etc.
Very thick cardboard or thin wood slightly larger in size than your pieces of paper
• A ball of string or 4 x large bull dog clips
• An old saucepan that you no longer use for cooking, large enough to hold your paper and cardboard/wood
• A container of cold water larger in size than your paper and cardboard/wood
• Tongs for taking your paper and cardboard/wood out of the saucepan
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