Workshops on offer
Lucy offers a selection of workshops based on the skills she has learnt; as an artist, pigment and ink maker, through her own research and previous qualifications and experience. (see ABOUT section> Lucy Mayes C.V). Workshops take place in her studio in East London or can be designed to work within a setting of your choosing. Please contact her thought the form on this page for enquiries.
London Pigment Introduction Workshop
Making sustainable pigments, inks and paint
- Introduction to Lucy's work as artist-pigment maker
- Waste stream pigments
- Introduction to colourants- pigments, dyes and making paint
- Paint making workshop (watercolour or oil paint etc) & filling out especially designed colour charts
Lake making workshop
- Short introduction to Lucy's work as artist-pigment maker
- Introduction to colourants- pigments, dyes and making paint
- Basic chemistry behind the laking process
- Practical pigment making demonstration, paint testing & filling out especially designed colour charts
Botanical Ink making workshop from locally collected materials
- Short introduction to her work as artist-pigment maker
- Introduction to colourants- pigments, dyes and making paint
- Run through of raw materials used for botanical ink making & how to extract dye
- Ink making processes that include using the following materials; oak galls, brazil wood, madder, walnuts, earth pigments and verdigris
- Practical ink making demonstration, ink testing & filling out especially designed colour charts
Intermediate pigment & Paint Making Workshop
- Short introduction to her work as artist-pigment maker
- In depth look at the properties of different pigments (concentrating on pigments I make: local/nationally collected iron oxide pigments, verdigris, lake pigments, carbon black pigments, waste stream pigments), binders & fillers and how they affect the resulting paint handling and dried paint film
- practical pigment making demonstration, paint testing & filling out especially designed colour charts
Earth Colours of Britain
- Short introduction to her work as artist-pigment maker
- In dept look at the earth colours I have collected, their provenance, characteristics and geological make up.
- Explanation of how I process earth colours
- Paint making workshop (watercolour or oil paint etc) using some of the pigments mentioned & filling out especially designed colour charts