I’m so excited to announce my first workshop in Ojai—and right in my home neighborhood, at Meiners Oaks Community Garden.
Join me for A Garden of Color, a workshop creating botanical prints with dye plants from my plot at the garden, on Sunday, August 10th.
Together we’ll harvest color-potent flowers by hand, discuss the cultivation and chemistry of color, and you’ll make your own artful, wearable textile print.
Learn more and sign up for the workshop here.
A Garden of Color
All spring and summer I’ve been nourishing seeds into sprouts and flowers, growing plants cultivated especially for their vibrant natural dyes, and the time has come to share the harvest with you.
Join me for a workshop creating botanical prints (also known as eco-printing, or bundle dyeing) with plants from my garden plot, which we’ll harvest by hand together to make artful, symmetrical prints on cotton squares which can be worn as bandanas or displayed as art.
We’ll have a full spectrum of natural color at our fingertips—red from coreopsis, orange from cosmos, yellow and green from pericón, blue-purple from hollyhocks… and more.
Gardens are ideal places for experimenting—in our time together we’ll explore plant and dye science, dye gardening practices, and of course, the “printing” method you’ll use to create your unique work of botanical art.
Yet this time outdoors, and this process in particular, invites a playful, meditative kind of creativity, where we can think a little bit less, and let the connective, inspiring nature of working with plants take over.
I hope to see you in the garden!
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