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Wild Inks - American Toad

Painted with wild grapes (fruits and burnt vine), buckthorn (bark and berries), copper oxide, sumac, horsetail (strobili), avocado pits.

Wild Inks - Asparagus Season

Painted with wild colours from grape, dandelion (the gentle green washes), buckthorn, horsetail, acorn and sumac. Plus a bit of help from avocado.

Wild Inks - Beaver

Wild Inks - Bees

Painted with goldenrod, horsetail strobili, sumac, wild grape, buckthorn, acorns, avocado pits and some saffron.

Wild Inks - Blue Jay

Painted with copper oxide, buckthorn berries + bark, and wild grape.

Wild Inks - White Chess Set

Inspired by Yoko Ono’s “White Chess Set”. Chess set in homemade whitewash. Splatters of sumac, saffron, wild grape, and mulberries.

Wild Inks - Eastern Chipmunk

Eastern chipmunk. Paints include wild grape, avocado pits, buckthorn.

Wild Inks - Dandelion

Painted with horsetail, saffron, wild grape, sumac, and a wee splash of acorn.

Wild Inks - Fawn in the woods

Painted with acorn, horsetail, wild grape, buckthorn berries, buckthorn bark, grapevine charcoal, sumac and mixings of the above.

Wild Inks - Eastern Grey Squirrel

Painted with acorn, wild grape, avocado, buckthorn bark, sumac, and a little bottle that’s a blend of all my leftovers cuz I can’t bear to waste them.

Wild Inks - Eastern Phoebe

Painted with acorn, goldenrod, buckthorn berries mixed with lye, charcoal made from wild grapevine, wild grapes, and “muddy medley” — a little container where I bottle up any inks I put on my palette but don’t finish.

Wild Inks - Eastern Towhee

We’d heard towhees here before, but only saw them in person for the first time that week — a chubby little male and female, scrummaging around in the junipers.

Wild Inks - Hawk

Wild Inks - Hoverfly

Painted with sumac, oak gall, buckthorn, acorn, and goldenrod. Finished with micron pen.

Wild Inks - Hummingbird

Painted with buckthorn, wild grape, avocado pits, goldenrod, sumac, grapevine charcoal.

Wild Inks - Moose

Painted with wild grapes (fruits and burnt vine), buckthorn (bark and berries), copper oxide, sumac, horsetail (strobili), avocado pits.

Wild Inks - Virginia Opossum

Paints include wild grape, buckthorn, grapevine charcoal, and sumac.

Wild Inks - Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

Painted with buckthorn bark, sumac, wild grape + avocado (the grass), oak galls.

Wild Inks - Raven

Painted with foraged wild grapes, buckthorn berries, and grapevine charcoal. Detailed with a micron pen.

Wild Inks - American Robin

Made from sumac, acorn, buckthorn berries, goldenrod, wild grape, wild violets, and grapevine charcoal.

Wild Inks - Saw-Whet Owl

Buckthorn bark and berries, wild grape, grapevine charcoal, sumac, acorn, some avocado, and a touch of locally grown saffron dustings for the eyes.

Wild Inks - Red colour-morph screech owl

Wild Inks - Slug

Painted with sumac, horsetail strobili, wild grape, grapevine charcoal, buckthorn berries and bark, acorn, and goldenrod. Plus a little detailing with a micron pen.

Wild Inks - Sprouting Acorn

Painted with acorn, buckthorn berries (originally mixed with lye, brought back to life with baking soda + wild grapes), wild grape, sumac berries, buckthorn bark, beet skins, charcoal wash from wild grapevine.

Wild Inks - White Squirrel

Squirrely here is painted mostly with buckthorn berries mixed with vinegar, some buckthorn bark, plus a little sumac and a dash of wild grape.

Natural Inks - Wolf Spider

Painted with wild grapevine charcoal, saffron bits, oak galls, soot, buckthorn bark, beet skins.