Keeping To An Art Theme,

but this time with a change of medium,

as artist Anna Chojnicka, started creating banana peel artworks during the Covid-19 lockdowns, photographs Anna Chojnicka banana_bruiser/Instagram,

 

to pass the time and keep her creative juices flowing, social entrepreneur Anna Chojnicka started experimenting with banana peel oxidation as an art medium. Instead of doodling on canvas or paper, she decided to simply bruise bananas with thin, blunt objects and let oxidation do the rest. The bruised peel becomes darker as the hours go by, revealing the design etched into it,

Anna partially bruises the banana with the blunt end of a comb or pin, allows the designed to darken, and then continues with the rest of her artwork, from intricate scenes that require a strong knowledge of light and shading, to detailed portraits or goofy illustrations, there seems to be no limit to Anna Chojnicka’s banana bruising capabilities. She has been posting a banana artwork a day since the UK lockdown started, and with the lockdowns expected to continue through the winter holidays, we can expect more in the coming weeks,

even though Anna, who goes by Banana Bruiser on social media, has just 1,600 followers on Instagram (at the time of this writing), her art has already gone viral, after being featured in a video by the BBC World Service, and in case you were wondering about all those wasted bananas, Anna assures us that she eats every one of her “canvases” after taking photos of her artworks, so there is no food waste to talk about, for more banana art have a look at her twitter page, as an aside, if banana art work is your thing check out the work of Stephan Brusche who also specialises in banana art work.