Activity Introduction:
In the Neolithic period, apart from learning to use mineral pigments, people gradually found that pigments could also be extracted from roots, stems, leaves and fruits of plants. Stone dye (mineral stone dye) and plant dye (plant dye, also known as vegetation dye) were parallel and combined with painting and dyeing. Plant dyes are easy to obtain and have gradually become the leading role in natural dyeing process in the long history. From The Zhou Dynasty to the Warring States Period, the natural dyeing process had been quite perfect, and rich colors were obtained through immersion dyeing, set dyeing and mordant dyeing. However, in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, with the invention and introduction of chemical dyes, natural dyes gradually faded out of public view.
However, chemical dyes provide us with the convenience of obtaining color, and at the same time cause great harm to the environment, such as producing a large amount of waste water that pollutes the environment. Natural dyes in nature, and even can use waste kitchen waste (such as onion skin, grape skins, avocado nucleus), common plants or at local tree pruning branches as dyeing material, after the choice without heavy metal residues mordant, after use, waste, basic can compost, degradation in the natural environment, to achieve the purpose of recycling.
This parent-child workshop will invite natural dyeing craftsmen and independent artist Ruan Bihua to open a new world of plant pigment extraction and natural pigment creation.
Activity process:
1. Close to nature: OCT Box Art Museum is located in Shunfengshan Park, Shunde District, Foshan City. Ruan Bihua, a natural dyeing artist, will lead participants to start their workshop journey from natural materials and understanding plants.
2. Extracting pigments from plants: Ruan Bihua, a natural coloring crafter, will work with children to extract pigments from roots, stems, flowers, leaves and fruits of natural plants to uncover the secrets of colors in natural plants.
3. Artistic creation: After extracting plant pigments, natural dyes were used to depict "light and shadow of spring".
4. Creation sharing: After the creation of the work, each group of families will share their creative ideas and ideas.