Nature Journaling Mushrooms
Mary-Ellen Campbell gave a Nature Journaling-Mushrooms presentation at the Nov 9, 2020 club meeting.
What is Nature Journaling and what you should be observing when journaling? Mary-Ellen helps you answer these questions and provides a simple how-to on mushroom drawing and supplies if you want to journal on your own.
Download and view a PDF of her engaging presentation.
After a 3 year grant as Visiting Artist and Artist-in-Residence at the Mendocino Art Center, Mary-Ellen Campbell has made the move to Caspar from her native New York. She was a Full Professor of Art at New Jersey City University, NJ. for thirty-four years. She has taught Book Arts workshops across the US and abroad. Her education includes a BA in Art Education, St. John’s University,NY, an MA from Michigan State University, and an MFA from Pratt Institute, NY.
As a multidisciplinary artist who does graphics, painting, sculpture, printmaking, book arts, and mixed media work, she has had 16 national/international solo exhibitions and over 80 group and invitational shows. In 2004-05 she was awarded the Fulbright Scholar Grant to teach Book Arts in Thailand. Her works are in many special collections across the country. Mary-Ellen won 12 residencies since 2007 in Finland, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Costa Rica, Colorado, N. Carolina, California and Minnesota creating more than 75 books and mixed media artworks.
What is Nature Journaling and what you should be observing when journaling? Mary-Ellen helps you answer these questions and provides a simple how-to on mushroom drawing and supplies if you want to journal on your own.
Download and view a PDF of her engaging presentation.
After a 3 year grant as Visiting Artist and Artist-in-Residence at the Mendocino Art Center, Mary-Ellen Campbell has made the move to Caspar from her native New York. She was a Full Professor of Art at New Jersey City University, NJ. for thirty-four years. She has taught Book Arts workshops across the US and abroad. Her education includes a BA in Art Education, St. John’s University,NY, an MA from Michigan State University, and an MFA from Pratt Institute, NY.
As a multidisciplinary artist who does graphics, painting, sculpture, printmaking, book arts, and mixed media work, she has had 16 national/international solo exhibitions and over 80 group and invitational shows. In 2004-05 she was awarded the Fulbright Scholar Grant to teach Book Arts in Thailand. Her works are in many special collections across the country. Mary-Ellen won 12 residencies since 2007 in Finland, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Costa Rica, Colorado, N. Carolina, California and Minnesota creating more than 75 books and mixed media artworks.
Photographing Mushrooms
Alan Franck wrote up a great guide for things to consider when photographing mushrooms. He provides a list of considerations along with photographs that illustrate the points.
Even if you're not interested in photography, the list of characteristics and observations that one should make will help you to become better at identifying mushrooms.
You can find the guide on the FunDiS website here: https://fundis.org/resources/blog/145-photography-of-macrofungi
Even if you're not interested in photography, the list of characteristics and observations that one should make will help you to become better at identifying mushrooms.
You can find the guide on the FunDiS website here: https://fundis.org/resources/blog/145-photography-of-macrofungi
Mushroom Dyes
Mushrooms can produce dyes in colors, from yellows to orange to brown, to red, and even greens, blues and purples!
The key go-to resource is the International Mushroom Dye Institute (IMDI) website at www.mushroomsforcolor.com
Here you will find the history of mushrooms for pigment pioneered by Miriam Rice here on the Mendocino Coast. The website will guide you to books, films and other resources for furthering your study and interest.
You can delve deeper into the life and work of Miriam Rice and her husband, Ray, on this site, which was lovingly curated by their daughter, Felicia: http://rayandmiriamrice.com
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DVD set: Mushrooms for Color and Papermaking with Polypores This DVD presentation, an excellent addition to the book Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments & Myco-Stix™ by Miriam C. Rice, combines two videos, produced in 1988 and 1993 respectively. Using extensive footage of Rice working around her home in the mushroom-rich environs of Mendocino, California, Dyeing with Fungi chronicles more than 20 years of her research and offers a fascinating glimpse into her methods for extracting the full spectrum of colors she discovered, as well as the excitement generated by her finds in the fibre arts community worldwide. This history of Miriam Rice’s work is followed by Papermaking with Polypores, a step-by-step guide demonstrated by Rice herself, to the method she developed for making truly gorgeous papers from mushrooms. 40 minutes, NTSC format, region-free. $24.95 |
Dorothy Beebee's daughter, Myra Beebee, has a wonderful website that shows her work with mushroom dyes (as well as other natural dyes.)
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NAMA (North American Mycological Association) has a nicely illustrated list of some of the best mushrooms for color:
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Alissa Allen hosts a wealth of information on her website, Mycopigments. Workshops are periodically offered as well.
http://mycopigments.com
Mushroom- and lichen-dyed yarns. Photo by Alissa Allen.
