Archives for posts with tag: plant art

Tucking Real Plants Between Original Art and Resin

May 5, 2014 //

Resin is a wonderful way to preserve and enhance real botanicals, so I decided to try a few pieces on wood panel in order to provide the best possible surface for the ice-smooth resin coating. First, I painted my background on a 5″x 5″ panel. Then, I chose a plain mustard yellow for the 7/8″ sides of the cradle, and mounted my two sweet ivy leaves. Before coating the work with resin, I couldn’t resist adding a tiny ‘droplet’ of water on one of the leaves using more acrylic and a tiny signature brush.

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Categories acrylic painting, art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical painting, collage, Garden art, mixed media, multi media, pressed botanicals, real botanicals

Flashback to Canvas

November 12, 2013 //

In between working on my pressed botanicals, I have decided that my winter project will be a return to some painting. In years past I have concentrated on landscapes and portraits, but now I plan to stay with my botanical theme. Don’t know yet how the series will develop. The image above is 18 x 20 and features ginkgo — one of my favorite leaves. I’d almost forgotten how quickly the process of painting makes me lose track of time. That’s a good thing unless it’s 2:00 AM on a work day.

Looking forward to meeting friends at the Yellow House on the 24th.

Tags botanical art, ginko, ginko image, lois lawrence, painting plants, plant art

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, collage, Uncategorized

A Trio of Landscapes with Pressed Leaves

June 3, 2013 //

When I wasn’t tending my display this weekend at beautiful Lippett Park in Providence, I turned my attention to some sweet little landscapes. I wanted to depict three different times of day and was tempted to use identical plants and placements, but my ADD wouldn’t hear of it, so the foliage differs from image-to-image. Some ferns, Andromeda, Sweet Woodruff, Columbine and even Raspberry.

I think it’s time to go abstract tomorrow.

I put them up on Etsy and Pinterest. Why not?

Tags collage, dried plants, ferns, horticulture, lois lawrence, mixed-media, modern botanical art, moonscape, night landscape, plant art, pressed botanicals, pressed ferns, stonington artist, stonington garden, sunset, unusual landscapes

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, collage, Garden art, Gardening, mixed media, multi media, pressed botanicals