Eco Print & colors from natural materials with Doris Reinbacher

Termin:
Fr., 18.07.2025 bis So., 20.07.2025

Dauer:
3 Days

Zeiten:
9 bis 17 Uhr; inkl. lunch break

Ort:
Pöllau Valley Nature Park
Meeting point 9:00 am in front of the Pöllau tourist office

Zielgruppe:
Young people aged 13 and over, adults, beginners and moderately advanced, people with mental disabilities

Workshop description

This workshop deals intensively and creatively with the colors and shapes of nature! We will mainly incorporate plants, but also soil, mushrooms and stones from our immediate surroundings directly into our works of art. We will make paints from various natural materials and use them to write, print, draw, paint and dye, and we will work extensively with Eco Print. Eco printing, also known as botanical contact printing, is a printing technique in which selected plant parts are stained, boiled or steamed in a pressed state so that the plant then transfers its color and structure to paper or fabric. Last but not least, the artist will talk about dyeing paper and fabrics with plants and other natural materials. We will prepare an indigo pulp with fructose and "naturally dye it blue.” Art production and experimenting with plant dyes as well as working in/with nature are the focus of this course! Weather permitting, we can work outside in nature. In any case, we will go for walks to search the surroundings for plants and other natural materials. This can also be done in concrete areas.

The course will be held as sustainably as possible.

Please bring:

Absorbent paper, the thickness is variable, from watercolor paper to waste paper - as much as you want to produce.Small textile pieces such as cloth bags etc.Possibly plant material or other natural materials such as stones or earth from which you want to obtain color or create an Eco Print.Dye plants in fresh or dried state that you definitely want to try. Vinegar, soy milk for fixingAlumPotash to intensify the colorGum arabic, guar gum or cornstarch to bind the colorsIron oxide or rusty small parts such as old nails, scissors, bottle openers ...)Apron or other clothing protection - we work with natural materials, you can get dirty.A suitable bag to transport the artwork home.

Material contribution:

Materials such as dye plants, paper, textiles, gum arabic, guar gum, vinegar, potash, alum, soy milk can also be purchased from the artist. Amount depending on requirements approx. 20,- to 40,- Euro

Price:

€ 380,- excl. Material

Workshop leader

Doris Reinbacher was born in Graz in 1981 and grew up near Stainz. Ortweinschule Graz for art and design, specializing in graphic design. Afterwards, because of her second passion for literature, film and theater, she studied German philology and theater, film and media studies in Vienna. During an Erasmus stay in Scandinavia, the beauty of nature was rediscovered and an ongoing interaction between city and country began.2009-2014: Member of Subterrarium, Vienna: association for the promotion and networking of experimental art forms. Organization and participation in various projects.since 2017: Intensive involvement with the printing technique Eco Print and color extraction from natural materials; since then course instructor and exhibitions.2019 until the beginning of the pandemic: stay in Chile and Argentina to get in touch with Holocaust survivors.

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