I spent the month of January creating arty things as part of the 64 Million Artists January challenge prompts. This led me to ask myself lots of questions about my art practice, including can I make art green? Can it be sustainable? One of my favourite challenges was (re)imagine – taking something and giving it a new purpose. With the above question in mind, I tried to create a watercolour brush from natural materials. We have rabbits so I looked for rabbit hair failed and noticed the hay in the hutch. Would it make a good brush? I grabbed a bunch of hay without really looking at it and found some twigs in the garden to act as brush handles. Hay is an interesting material as it has rigid and floppy fibres. I decided to make three brushes, 2 rounds and a flat. The rounds were going to use rigid and floppy fibres to see the difference. I imagined that the more ridged fibre would be more like a pen than a brush. Although I wanted a natural feel to the brush, I did tidy up the stray hay with scissors. So how did the brushes perform? I was impressed at the mark making qualities of the hay brushes. The flat brush spread paint easily, but the bristles of hay left interesting marks on the page. The round floppy brush was brilliant for creating tree shapes in the landscape and worked like a normal watercolour brush. The round rigid brush was more pen like and not really suited to watercolour, although I felt that it would work well with thicker paints such as Gouache and Acrylic.