Today's fun has been printing with the trunk of a banana tree.
Floss (my ever reliable garden fairy) has given me a wonderful Christmas present in the form of a banana tree trunk, which I have sliced up. I use the cross sections of the trunk to do hand printing using a roller and block printing ink. It has the most wonderful pattern that gives me goose-bumps every time, a beautiful natural design.
I'm going to create a solar etchng plate from one of the prints, so that I can reproduce the print multiple times for book covers and other goodies that I create.
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| The slices of banana trunk |
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| My roller and black Block Printing ink |
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| One of the beautiful prints, its like the inside of a shell |
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| A close up of the banana trunk cross section, fleshy and fibrous - no wonder it makes great paper and material for baskets! |
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