As you recognize I at all times love experimenting with new methods of constructing artwork. Pressed leaves are making a comeback within the artwork world, they’re paying homage to many years and centuries previous when individuals would press flowers into books to protect them after which flip them into keepsakes.
Pressed flowers and leaves have a basic enchantment, so I believed I would strive my hand and make a couple of with inexperienced leaves on a black background. I’ve seen pressed flower items on Etsy with a white background or inside a transparent body. Black backgrounds spotlight inexperienced botanicals so fantastically so I selected black artwork paper for this venture.
To create your personal, the availability listing is brief and the steps are easy! You may want 9×12” black blended media artwork paper (additionally out there right here); a set of pressed inexperienced leaves; acid free reminiscence glue; tweezers; body of alternative.
Be sure that to make use of acid free glue and paper so the pressed leaf artwork will final for years to return. I discovered my glue at Michael’s on clearance, however it’s also possible to discover related glues in scrapbook sections of craft shops or on-line.
It is a sluggish and meditative form of artwork venture, arranging the leaves after which slowly gluing them one after the other to the paper.
I cleaned them up in Photoshop and so they’re now out there as digital downloads in my print store which could be printed in quite a lot of sizes from 11×14” to 24×30”.
They’re out there on this Botanical Assortment and likewise within the Etsy store as a pair the place they’re on sale.
Leaf Medley I
Leaf Medley II
Set of Botanicals (on Sale on Etsy)
Ship me footage of your pressed flower creations for those who make your personal!
Supply hyperlink
