Wishing all our Hindu members and friends a bright and colourfully joyous Deepavali!
This morning's demonstration at the Botanical Gardens was on how to use local leaves to print a specific design. As it was Deepavali, a peacock design was chosen for the occasion. Porterweed leaves (Stachytarpheta indica Jamaicensis) and stems were used to make up the peacock's body and tail.
It was a busy morning at the Gardens, with many families taking advantage of the sunny weather to enjoy a family outing and there were many children watching the demonstration. Perhaps due to the large crowds around the Botanika Shop, the usual furry friends were nowhere to be seen so the demonstration went off peacefully and without any funny incidents.
The largest leaf was used to print the peacock's body first before the stems were printed in a radiating fan shape on which smaller leaves could be arranged to make up the tail feathers. A mainly blue and green colour scheme was chosen for the design. When all the shapes had been printed, gold and silver glitter was added to highlight the peacock's body, eyes, crest and tail feathers.
If you're interested to learn more about printing with leaves or would like your children to learn a simple but valuable craft which they can use to decorate their own T-shirts at home, don't forget that we have classes for printing and painting at our Outreach office from 1pm to 4.30pm every Saturday.
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