Colourful Coats: Vegetable Colour Painting Workshop
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Date: 17th August 2024
Time: 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
Venue: Alipore Jail Museum
Recommended age: 10+
Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. Natural dyes have been used since ancient times for colouring and printing fabrics. Until the middle of the 18th Century, most of the dyes were derived from plants or animal sources by long and elaborate processes. Flowers, fruits, roots, stones, and earth are all-natural ingredients used for dyes. The dyes are extracted by boiling natural materials and then staining; mixing them with modants such as Aluminium Sulphate, Copper Sulphate, and Ferrous Sulphate. These modants are used to change the colour of natural dyes. They are also used for fixing. Arjun, Mango barks; fruits like Myrobalan and catechu; Madar roots, and flowers like Merigold, and red Hibiscus are used as natural dyes.
Facilitated by the noted contemporary artist Arunima Chowdhury; who has been using natural dyes as a medium for her paintings. Participants will learn basic techniques and create an artwork/painting themselves under the artist’s guidance.
By the end of the workshop, you can expect to have learned the following:
• Introduction to natural dyes, knowledge sharing, and understanding the history of making it and the concept of natural dyes.
• How to prepare and apply natural dyes.
• Transformation of colours using modants.
• Be guided on creating unique artwork.
• Learn about natural dye materials, colour mixing.
