The flowers (the petals), leaves, stems, are now elements that can be used as the colorful palette of a painter. They are “living painting”, with which you can become an artist without much effort, but with patience and good taste. We are talking about the “craft botany”, a world of possibilities to decorate your home, make gifts with special meaning, opening a door to get away from stress or, if interested, to cultivate their talents a good source of extra income.
If viewed from a distance a painting done with pressed flowers, looks like a painting. The flowers, placed between two glass boxes or glued on paper-are flattened, but retain their shapes, color and texture, allowing for amazing and beautiful designs.
For five years, Vivianne Bonett works pressing flowers, leaves and weeds that give life to his paintings, cards, coasters, bookmarks, trays, picture frames and lampshades, among countless objects.
“The craftsmanship botany, as I call it, to discover the nature, look at what there is around. I changed my life, I learned to relax and make beautiful things with nature,” says Vivianne, who currently broadcasts its rich teaching experience this amazing technique.
It’s a little known activity, dirt cheap, available to all. It only takes one press flowers or your garden plot, and what dictates their creativity.
How to make a botanical craft?
As a teenager, more than ever perhaps you kept a flower, a twig or leaf of special significance in the pages of a book or notebook. Over time, that memory became a florprensada, and this is the secret of craftsmanship botany, its basic element.
Books written off or outdated phone books are great for pressing, but the ideal is to use a press. No need to buy it, since it is easy to manufacture. To build a home type requires two Cholguán plates, four bolts with their butterflies – and blotting paper, found in some libraries. The size of the boards depend on the desired quantity of pressed flowers, but the most suitable dimensions are 30 x 40 centimeters. He drilled the four corners of Cholguán are placed and tightened the bolts as much as possible, to leave flowers completely flattened between blotters, in the following order: Cholguán, blotting paper, flowers, paper towels and Cholguán.
Depending on their moisture, flowers require different pressing times. The easy process-like thoughts, pelargonium, bear ears, joys of home, berberis and other types of floor coverings-ready in ten days. It is advisable to give them a peek every five days to control the evolution of the press.
Difficult flowers like roses, for its humidity require more time in the press, about twenty days, and a daily change of blotting paper to prevent fungi … And you have the elements for creation.
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