| Pressed Floral Designs by Elaine |
| My name is Elaine Brown and I started pressing flowers over 20 years ago. It actually started when I saw a small white card with some pressed violas on the front covered with Contact Paper. I thought it was a wonderful way of making flowers and plant material live on for ever. Over the years, I have made many pressed flower pictures which I have either given to friends or sold. |
| A favourite picture of mine is the one on the right in a fan shaped frame. It was a challenge coming up with a design that would compliment the frame. I find often the frames give me the greatest inspiration for a picture. The Swan picture on the right was one of the first I ever made and is almost entirely made from Dusty Miller. An autumn leaf was used to make the beak. The picture beneath the swan I call my Posy Arrangement. It consists of pansies, pink and purple larkspur, rose leaves, verbena and lobelia. I used a real ribbon to give it an authentic look. |
| Here are a few great pressed flower links that I know you will love. |
| To the right is a picture that I made some time ago of a bird's head. This was certainly a challenge and I tried to use the leaves as if I were painting, by turning them from back to front to get different kinds of shading. The leaves I used for most of the head were sumach leaves. |
