Flowers & Food: Ink Making & Instant Colour (1 in a 4-part series)

Nov 11	Wed 11th Nov 2026 6pm – 8:30pm GMT (UTC +00:00)

	School Farm CSA, Dartington, Totnes, UK

	https://dandelion.events/e/colourlab-flowers-food

art and ecology colourmaking south hams natural colour art workshop

Hosted by	Colour Lab
Activity	Evening Colour Lab Workshops at School Farm
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Flowers & Food: Ink Making & Instant Colour

Part 1 in a series of 4 evening Colour Lab workshops

Learn how to make your own watercolour inks from flowers, plants and food waste.

In this workshop, you’ll learn a simple recipe for watercolour ink making and learn an ‘instant ink’ method for testing new ingredients you find at home and out on the land. You’ll receive an introduction to some commonly used dye plants and understand which food waste ingredients give the best colours for artwork. There'll be time for creative play and drawing with the inks, as well as demos for how to expand your range of colours.

You'll go home with: a jar of your own ink, colour sample cards, recipe handouts, and any drawings you've made.

Open to anyone aged 18+, no previous experience required. Materials and refreshments provided.

This workshop is Part 1 in a series of 4 evening Colour Lab workshops, running the second Wednesday of each month, November–February, 6-8:30pm, at School Farm, Totnes.

You can come to any of the sessions as a stand-alone workshop or join all 4 for a full course in learning how to make inks, paints, pigments & paper dyes from plants, minerals & waste products.

Full programme:

Flowers & Food: Ink Making & Instant Colour, Wednesday 11th November
Trees & Metals: Mordants & Modifiers, Wednesday 9th December
Paper & Prints: Paper dyeing & Eco-printing, Wednesday 13th January
Earth & Minerals: Pigments & Paints, Wednesday 10th February

£45 per workshop / £160 for all 4 (select the ‘All 4’ ticket on purchase)

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Flowers & Food: Ink Making & Instant Colour	£45


All 4: Ticket for all 4 Colour Lab evening workshops (11 Nov, 9 Dec, 13 Jan, 10 Feb)	£160


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