You never know what makes a great printing tool......

Honestly, I didn't start out with this in mind:  I was simply doing something in the kitchen.  One minute, I was prepping vegetables for dinner.  Before I catch myself I was back in my studio with this in-hand, looking for my paint!  What do you think it is?

It is the base of some sort of leafy veggie that came in my local produce box.

It tasted like a cross between bok choy and chard.

When I got to the base of the bunch I loved the look of it!  Here are a few of the marks I made with it:

these are artist trading cards made with watercolor paper

here is a swatch of mulberry paper stamped with opaque white acrylic paint