The Organic Artist: Make Your Own Paint, Paper, Pigments, Prints and More from Nature

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Quill Pens

Quill pens are fun to make and even more satisfying to use. They are made from the shafts of primary feathers (the outer-most wing feathers) from large birds, such as turkeys, geese, and swans.

Make charcoal in a custom kiln

This is the type of charcoal that you can buy in art supply stores. These sticks of charcoal are traditionally made from wild grape vine and willow, although you can use any species of wood, experimenting with various densities to get variations in the hardness. To make charcoal sticks, you first need to make a simple tool called a charcoal kiln. This is a little metal vessel that can be loaded with sticks and twigs, sealed shut, and then placed in a hot campfire to char. Charcoal kilns allow the contained materials to burn without entirely combusting, due to the low oxygen environment inside the kiln.

Coffee ink

This sepia-tone ink is great for drawing with pens, doing washes with paintbrushes, writing, and even staining sheets of paper to give them a vintage look.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books; Illustrated edition (January 15, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Flexibound ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1592539262
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1592539260
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.5 x 10.5 inches