Avocado Ink Notebook Making Workshop – Print Festival 2026
Using natural avocado inks, you’ll create your own paper and notebooks with printmaker Wendy Roby!
In this workshop you’ll get the opportunity to draw with gorgeous, rose-pink avocado ink, warming up with a mark-making exercise. We’ll then move on to using liquid wax, covering a piece of card with interesting shapes before painting over it with avocado ink – made from the stones. The wax resists the ink, making beautiful, one of a kind paper.
With your new cover paper, you’ll make a small notebook with a clever card and bakers twine closure. Along the way, you’ll learn about how Wendy uses food waste, foraged plants and scrap minerals in her printmaking on fabric and paper. At the end of the workshop, you’ll take home your beautiful new notebook and a recipe card for making your own avocado ink.
This session is suitable for beginners and those over the age of 16 when accompanied by an adult.
This workshop is taking place as part of our Print Festival. Find out more > https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/print-festival-2026
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