Photo report about creating still life from flowers and leaves. Information about the preparation of the necessary plant materials.
Forgotten in the book I see I "
A.S. Pushkin.
Florist without harvested materials - that artist without paints. Each flower and plant - its time, because it is important to collect them on time. The workpiece can be started in the spring, but spring flowers, even being dried correctly, quickly burn out, with the exception of pansy eyes, but without them the palette will be incomplete. Most colors are harvested in summer and autumn. Dried in compliance with technology, they do not change the natural color and with indirect solar lighting are preserved for 5 years and longer. Many plants are not assembled in the meadow, but in the forest: these are flowers of Kalina, hawthorn, cherry, buttercups, valley, violets. All flowers for drying must be fresh. Already confused in a vase are not suitable for this purpose. Kprimer, who fallen rose petals can not be dried. Daisies are dried entirely, the chamomile has a middle of flowers and petals, separately from each other.
In most cases, flower petals are separated from the flowering, laid on a sheet of soft, unscrewed hygroscopic paper (can be with toilet) and covered above the same sheet. Paper sheets with flowers are placed below and on top of four layers of the newspaper, after which it is clamped from two sides with special plywood covers, in which a set of holes have been done to circulate air. On this multi-layered "sandwich" on top there is a weight of at least 8kg weight. Absorbing moisture newspapers change every day for five days. Dried petals are stored in cardboard boxes.
Sew leaves are somewhat simpler. It is not necessary to lack them with toilet paper: enough four layers of newspapers from below and from above, which, moreover, can not be changed. However, put under the press by closing between plywood covers, the leaves must be necessary. Ovshech leaves before drying cutting cuttings.
Thick, juicy leaves of decorative cabbage and their likes are dried under the press, putting up toilet paper and newspapers for long, until complete dehydration. Also dry sliced by layers along the spring kidney willow. Not only flowers and leaves, but also other plant materials are harvested. The wrappers of corn cobs simply stroke the iron. Oatmeal or barley straw is cut along the stems, we can crack and weaken in the plates, which then stick to the "On-Scint" paper into several rows. From such plates you can cut flowers and leaves. Stems and leaves of garlic dried under the press. The dry husk with garlic bulbs is cut by segments of the required shape and used to simulate pearl. The peel of orange and the mandarin, with which the inner layer is removed, is dried in the same way as flower petals. The texture of the dried peel allows you to portray on the picture of strawberry and strawberries.
In the process of the workpiece of materials, it is permissible to use natural dyes. The whitening of leaves and straw can be produced using hydrogen peroxide, yellow color is obtained by their boiling after bleaching in soda solution, greenish-dummage of the material in a solution of vitriol. Then they are dried in the way described above.
Creation of artistic appliqués from flowers and leaves- art improvisation. Sketch You will not need, because solutions come in the process of selection of the palette and creating the composition. However, the sequence of actions will have to be observed.
In flower still life, it is important to create the desired background. For this purpose, the leaves of raspberry or silver poplar, laid out of the invalid side, the nettle, mother-and-machem, Badan, American maple, Kornus (shrubs, whose leaves are becoming a crimson) and others.
For a bouquet, you can take the leaves of fern, the Chernobyl, the flowers of heather, cherry, white and yellow donel, blue dolphinium, unprofitable buds of apple trees, buttercups, pansies.
