Drawn from the Wild

Caroline Ross

• 13 juni 2025
• 9781800922594

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Re-wild your art practice, and learn to make your own drawing and sketching materials from the ground beneath your feet and world around you.

Author and artist Caroline Ross shows you how to make your own sustainable and eco-friendly drawing materials from abundant foraged and natural materials. Within these pages you'll find everything you need to make a world of art materials, from richly pigmented pastels and smoke-black charcoal to deep, lightfast inks and the pens and surfaces on which to use them.

Find a world beyond shop-bought materials. You – and your environment – deserve a creative life that is plastic-free, and creates no waste.

• Learn to make your own drawing materials – tannin and botanical inks, brushes, quill pens, charcoal, soft and hard pastels and more
• Build a unique, personal and sustainable art practice intimately connected to the land where you live
• Take inspiration from the beautiful artwork of Caroline Ross along with more than a dozen other contributing artists who show their take on sustainable art.

Re-wild your art practice, by transforming foraged and found materials into vibrant, sustainable drawing media, from richly pigmented pastels and smoke-black charcoal to deep, lightfast inks.

‘If you love culture, but know in your bones you are also part of nature, like me, you’ll want to make your art practice more ecologically sound and sustainable.’ - Caroline Ross

This stunning, practical book, sequel to the best-selling Found and Ground, contains both ancient and modern techniques for ‘rewilding’ your art practice. With hands-on advice and simple, step-by-step instruction, artist and author Caroline Ross shows you how to create beautiful, useful art supplies from wild and ancient materials – whether those materials are foraged, natural, discarded or repurposed.

Inside the book you’ll discover:

• Advice on how to forage safely and ethically, as well as tips on scavenging in the urban environment and rewilding your art practice gradually;
• Practical, step-by-step instructions for using lump media, preparing pigments, and creating hard and soft pastels;
• A complete guide to creating charcoal, from assessing different wood types, refining your sticks and then a guide to burning;
• A guide to creating tannin, iron gall and botanical inks, plus instructions for making your own quill pen and brush;
• Surfaces on which to work, from found paper, leather and bark, to making your own sewn sketchbook;
• A final section on more permanent and long-lasting materials, such as metalpoint.

Expansive, inclusive and ethically-aware, Caroline illustrates the book with her own inspirational artwork alongside that of other artistic contributors from different cultures and different parts of the world, with their own distinctive materials, approaches and uses of the same core techniques.