Specialization in Creative Botanical Mixed Media Techniques

Course summary

• U1: Getting Inspired

  • Introduction

  • Influences | Olga Prinku

  • Influences | Gina y Miguel

  • My sources of inspiration | Fiona Luciani

  • Influences | Happy Green Family

  • Influences | Molly Jackson

• U2: Tulle Embroidery with Natural Flowers and Plants

  • Introduction to Dry and Preserved Flowers

  • How to Dry Your Own Flowers

  • Preparing the Flowers

  • Introduction to Hoops and Tulle Fabric

  • Preparing the Hoop with Tulle Fabric

  • Methods for Attaching the Flowers

  • Creating Complex Shapes Using Flowers

  • Choosing Your Colour Palette

  • Planning Your Final Design

  • Executing Your Final Design 1

  • Executing Your Final Design 2

  • Executing Your Final Design 3

  • How to Seal Your Final Work

  • Framing Your Work for Display

• U3: Creating Liquid Watercolors and Botanical Inks

  • Sustainable Art and Curiosity

  • Botanical Dye Sources and Their Cycle

  • Natural Classification of Vegetable and Botanical Dyes

  • Recognition of Materials and Tools

  • Extraction Procedure: Cooking and Crushing

  • Extraction Procedure: Macerated in Water

  • Extraction Procedure: Macerated in Alcohol

  • Color Transformations

  • Experimentation in Organic Compositions with Dyes

  • Preservation and Binder

  • Assemble the Logbook in an Old Book

• U4: Colorful Herbarium from A to Z

  • The necessary equipment

  • Introduction to botany

  • Artistic herbaria

  • Inspiration and mood board

  • Gathering

  • The three families of pressed flowers

  • Squeeze and store 1

  • Squeeze and store 2

  • Placement of markers

  • The composition

  • Gluing stage

  • Framing and conservation

  • Gilding with gold leaf

  • Language of flowers

• U5: Basic Botanical Pressing Techniques

  • What is the botany and basic taxonomy of a plant

  • The work of botanists, collecting and what is a herbarium?

  • Materials and tools

  • Methods to preserve plants

  • Methods for pressing plants

  • Tips on how to properly glue your dried plants and principles of botanical composition

  • Separate sheets for books

  • Tables with flat plants and with volume

  • How to store your dried flowers?

  • Botanical art

• U6: Stained Glass with Pressed Flowers: The Tiffany Method

  • Materials

  • Designing Your Piece

  • Pressing Botanicals

  • Safety

  • Cutting the Glass

  • Grinding Your Glass Pieces

  • Foil Wrapping

  • Soldering

  • Beading and Jump Rings

  • Cleaning Your Piece

  • Patina

  • Polishing and Hanging

• Final project

  • Specialization in Mixed Media: Creative Botany