Caroline Ross

Just two spaces left! Join us for Found and Ground: Making Natural Art Materials Level One - 5 Days With Caroline Ross @foundandground from the 22nd – 26th June 2026 What You Will Learn - How to forage for natural materials: such as gums, fibres, and fixatives - Creating your own paints: watercolour, gouache, egg tempera, and veglair - Making pastels and natural fixatives - Craft charcoal and sketchbooks: Making your own drawing tools and sketchbooks - Try reverse-wrap cordage: A simple but fascinating technique for making string from natural fibers. - Insights from Caroline’s books, Found and Ground and Drawn From the Wild This course offers hands-on experience, with each day dedicated to a different aspect of natural art materials. Caroline will guide you through each step of the process, encouraging creativity and experimentation. By the end of the week, you will be able to confidently source and make your own art materials from natural and urban environments. What’s Included - All raw materials needed for the course - Vegetarian lunches and refreshments each day A week or two after the course, you will receive a tailored PDF resource file with all recipes, methods, and additional learning materials to take home. You can also join ‘Drawn From the Wild: Making Natural Art Materials Level Two - 5 Days With Caroline Ross’ which will take place from the 29th June - 3rd July 2026. These two courses have been scheduled back-to-back in June to allow participants the opportunity to attend both for a richer, more in-depth exploration of natural material making. Location: Brentor Village Hall, Brentor, Tavistock, Devon PL19 0LW, UK Photo credit: @londonpigment from ‘Found & Ground 2025’ 🔗 To find out more and to join find the page at plantsandcolour.com (link in bio)

This June, Caroline Ross @foundandground is teaching her Level Two Course: Drawn From The Wild in Devon. Covering: - Sketchbooks: Making books and a book box to create a bespoke journey through the materials and landscape. - Drawing on alternative surfaces: repurposed, foraged, clothing, leather, etc. - Metal point grounds: making gouache ground (vegan), traditional rabbit skin glue and bone white grounds (non-vegan but waste stream) on paper and boards, tinted grounds. Preparing a metal point ground sketchbook for plein air drawing. - Metal point use and preparation of extra grounds. Drawing with found and improvised household metals, as well as professional tools and exploring this historical method which can replace disposable permanent mark-making drawing tools. - Pigments: sourcing, foraging, and fine processing. Learn how to refine pigments further. - Semi-precious stone pigments: sourcing, prep, grinding, washing, difference to earth pigments. - Paint-making: traditional binders, fine paints, trouble-shooting and improvements, watercolours, glue paint, egg paints, vegan paints. - Casein Paints: Make casein paint, an amazing natural polymer paint medium that can even be used outdoors. - An alternative to petrochemical oil pastels - Hide Glue: Make traditional hide scrap glue and use it for both adhesive and paint medium on card, canvas, leather and suede. - Pastels: conte, soft, experimental, graphite, wax (guest session with Flora!), natural fixatives, holders, cleaning and storage. - Ink: Simple botanical inks with good lightfastness alongside making dip pens and brushes. Also how to pH test and modify (buffer) inks, for better archival quality. - Charcoal making: wood, bone and date stone traditional blacks, and oil charcoal. Including a tailored pdf file with all the recipes and methods from the course. Who Is This For? For people who have already been learning and practicing making natural art materials who would like to hone and deepen their skills. This course is ideal for artists, art teachers, and anyone interested in sustainable art practices. 🔗 find the link at plantsandcolour.co.uk (link in bio)

Come and join me in Devon UK in June and July 2026. One spot has come up at Found & Ground course and there's a couple of spots left for Drawn From the Wild. Everything you need to know is in my grid and also at @plants_and_colour Also, a free for all folks pigment picnic with wonderful colour pals @strataink @mmmordere @ampersandtextile and more. Putney Library VT, USA 2-4pm May 21st. Organised by beloved @in_situ_polyculture I am off to see pals and hang out, have fun, write poems and play with tannins and rocks. Sometimes you gotta have a break from work! All details are in my free newsletter. Just search 's u b s t a c k foundandground' , you'll find me and all the colourful gubbins that I'd love you to join me in doing. Right. My bags are not going to pack themselves, it seems. Please share this post if you can as the algo doesn't like me posting about my news letter hosted elsewhere. Thanks! #artcourses #pigmentpicnic #pigmentpeople #makepaint #artnewsletter

Grounded in Colour Come join us for @londoncraftweek on Monday 11th May, for a foray into the beauty of Earth. The programme includes two events led by me. The day begins with an in-depth, hands-on workshop for a small group of participants, tracing how pigments and paints should begin not in a factory, but in the ground beneath our feet. Working directly with raw rocks, soils and clays, participants learn how to process natural materials into usable pigments and create their own handmade paint to take home. In the afternoon, the @edwardbulmerpaint showroom opens for a live demonstration, welcoming drop-in visitors to learn about the pigment-making process and engage with the materials, tools and techniques involved. This informal session offers insight into traditional craft methods and the transformation of raw earth into colour. Together, these events invite visitors to reconnect with the material origins of paint, celebrating the Earth as both a source of colour and a vital natural resource. In association with @soilassociation This will be my only London event this year and my only short course, as I have moved 'up north'. Come along, all are welcome. Images show Tynedale and Allendale colours found and collected recently and tested in situ using only river water and elbow grease to make colourful marks on boulders which will return harmlessly to the soil when the rain washes them away. Last two slides show watercolour paints made with pure soils and minerals with gum Arabic or cherry tree gum, plus honey or sugar. These ancient ecologically sound paints still perfectly embody simple ease of expression and purity of colour. /events/grounded-in-colour/ Link in bio. #eartharts #naturalpaint #carolinerossartist #foundandgroundcourses #earthpigments

Just one space left! Join us for Found and Ground: Making Natural Art Materials Level One - 5 Days With Caroline Ross @foundandground from the 22nd – 26th June 2026 in Devon, UK What You Will Learn - How to forage for natural materials: such as gums, fibres, and fixatives - Creating your own paints: watercolour, gouache, egg tempera, and veglair - Making pastels and natural fixatives - Craft charcoal and sketchbooks: Making your own drawing tools and sketchbooks - Try reverse-wrap cordage: A simple but fascinating technique for making string from natural fibers. - Insights from Caroline’s books, Found and Ground and Drawn From the Wild This course offers hands-on experience, with each day dedicated to a different aspect of natural art materials. Caroline will guide you through each step of the process, encouraging creativity and experimentation. By the end of the week, you will be able to confidently source and make your own art materials from natural and urban environments. What’s Included - All raw materials needed for the course - Vegetarian lunches and refreshments each day A week or two after the course, you will receive a tailored PDF resource file with all recipes, methods, and additional learning materials to take home. You can also join ‘Drawn From the Wild: Making Natural Art Materials Level Two - 5 Days With Caroline Ross’ which will take place from the 29th June - 3rd July 2026. These two courses have been scheduled back-to-back in June to allow participants the opportunity to attend both for a richer, more in-depth exploration of natural material making. Location: Brentor Village Hall, Brentor, Tavistock, Devon PL19 0LW, UK Photo credit: @londonpigment from ‘Found & Ground 2025’ 🔗 To find out more and to join find the details at plantsandcolour.com (link in bio)

See you on the other side Here are a few moments from early spring so far, sorting pigments, ink tests, preparing for teaching, picking wild garlic, (hyper abundant locally), listening to friends. The thrush says 'Guinevere! Guinevere!' Every morning and all day. The Chiffchaff chiffs and chaffs. Hurray for them. I am heartsore and overwhelmed by the awfulness of world news and the ongoing illness of four of my closest people and family. I need to save all my resources for them, for showing up with energy and joy at my in person and online teaching, and to have a little bit of something left for me, my research and writing. The rocks tell me to take my time, the plants tell me to attend to my roots. So, if you want to get in touch, please use the webform on my site. This and all my classes and courses, books for sale and everything else are at the link tree in my bio. I will no longer check dms here. I have had so many art events, images and more to share, and this place has been a lovely way to meet people since I joined in 2018, but the machine is eating everything I love, all our art and energy. I don't want to feed it. I'll add posts if new classes arise or if I can help out a friend who's doing something wonderful. Friends on here, you can always reach me by email or phone. Let's meet in the real. I cannot express how much love and gratitude I have for all you rock elves, ink wizards, tanning dragons, craft foxes and ancestral skills eagles and the amazing things you share. Seeing your creations, full of heart and dexterity has made owning this diabolic little rectangle of glass and metal worthwhile. #inkmaking #pigmentmaking #wildgarlic #loggingoff #realityornothing

Making & Working With Natural Art Materials and will begin next week on Tuesday the 7th April 2026 Sharing practices for working with plant and earth based colour, deepening skills over the year to create an artist material tool kit from pastels, to inks, from metal-point, to gesso, and more. Taught by: @anniehogg_thewildhedgeinkco @londonpigment @strataink @foundandground @mushroomcoloratlas You can join these learning sessions individually, or join the whole programme and gain access to extra study groups and mentoring with the teachers. Here is a summary of the programme. The sessions will be monthly, giving you time to practice each technique between sessions. PAINT - Core foundations of paint-making, introducing key concepts, materials, binders and basic processes - Lucy Mayes COLOUR - Creating a palette of personal primary colours with earth and plant based colour - Carolyn Sweeney PAPER - Choosing papers for natural colour work, exploring the effects of different types of paper and sizing with wet and dry media - Carolyn Sweeney PENS - Making an ink that can be used in a fountain pen and refillable felt tip markers. Demonstrating how to make Quill Pens, bamboo, & reed pens. - Annie Hogg & Caroline Ross MODIFIERS - Mushroom Inks with Modifiers & Binders - Julie Beeler PIGMENTS - Fundamentals Deep Dive: Moving into greater depth and complexity with the addition of particle morphology etc - Lucy Mayes PASTELS - Graphite / conte / graded hard pastel making method - Caroline Ross LICHEN - The Science & Art of Lichen Based Colour - Julie Beeler LAYERING - Layering different types of natural colour- wet and dry mediums, botanical and mineral colours, water-based and oil-based mediums - Carolyn Sweeney GESSO - Gesso workshop, with extra elements of panel preparation - Annie Hogg METAL-POINT - On prepared paper: warm coppery tones, greys, blacks - Caroline Ross 🔗 For more info, find the link at plantsandcolour.com (link in bio)

Descubre el deslumbrante mundo de la pintura ecológica, natural y sostenible. 🪵🍂🪨🎨 Al crear tus propias pinturas y pigmentos con técnicas ancestrales, reconectarás con la naturaleza y con tu entorno. Aprenderás desde cómo recolectar los materiales de la tierra, hasta las técnicas para refinar pigmentos y elaborar colores únicos que despierten al artista que hay en ti. - Autora: @foundandground - DESCUBRE MÁS EN HOAKI.COM 🔗 #pigmentosnaturales #pinturasecologicas #diypaint #diypainting

In unserem Online-Magazin tauchen wir ab in das Reich des farbigen Felsgesteins. ⛰️ 🧱 👉Zum Beitrag gelangst du über den #linkinderbio Foto: Caroline Ross

In «Wild & Bunt» zeigt Caroline Ross @foundandground , wie aus gefundenem Naturmaterial und alltäglichen Resten individuelle Zeichenmaterialien entstehen.🐚

Ink test strips from the last 3 years' teaching and book preparation. About this amount again have already been made into collages, cards and book marks. I love the ephemera of making natural art materials. Barely a scrap is wasted. I am meant to be packing to go south to teach a 3 day foraged colour, pigment, pastel and ink making workshop but I have taken 5 minutes to make this rosette for you. Make ink! Find beauty in the margins! #makeinks #inktests #botanicalinks #tannininks #foragedartmaterials

Warum nicht mal die neuen Bücher und Spiele wie im Horrorfilm in Szene setzen?😂