Bamboo

Having photographed flowers in the garden recently I thought it was a good opportunity to share another garden plant, our ...Bamboo jungle.....

inspired recently by a post which  Danny Gregory did for the EDM challenge 'draw your foot'  when he used a bamboo pen,  I thought  haha!  I'll try making a piece of bamboo from the garden into a pen!.....but would it work....



here's the first effort

not bad....I used it like a dip pen with ink.   Then decided to refine the nib, so I trimmed it down more to a point

and tried various outlines....

I like the effect the pen gives with varying thick and thin lines - and the randomness of them...

and a quick drawing...

"So why does mum expect me to model for her!"

All in all I'm really pleased with this and intend to use more pieces trimmed to various widths -

yay lots of free pens!

- Thank you Danny for this inspiration -