A SIMPLE BUT BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF "SCANNED" FRESH FLOWER ART

Here is a photo showing a simple but pretty piece of scanned fresh flower art. It is one of my first attempts to transfer the beauty of fresh flowers onto paper. Tiny pink hydrangeas along with a few white geranium blossoms along with purple blooms and leaves from a hanging basket show up in full color against a background created from green scrap paper.

As you stroll through your own backyard just allow your mind to flow freely, drinking in the wonder of that natural world surrounding you. You may be pleasantly surprised by what creative ideas present themselves. Imagine how many ways a simple but lovely piece like this could be used.

See previous post on this blog "Scanning Fresh Flowers..." to learn how to scan fresh flowers onto paper.

Fresh Flower Art

Venturing into fresh flower and plant art has become both an interesting and pleasantly enjoyable venture. Our own backyard offers a constant supply of material to experiment with from early spring until late autumn. Some of the flowers appearing in this scanned arrangement are red and white impatients, daisies and queen anns lace. For information on how to do this see previous post on this blog. Although there is still much to be learned concerning the centering and arrangement process of the subject I was delighted with the brilliancy and true-to-life color transferred onto the paper.

SCANNING FRESH FLOWERS ONTO PAPER

This is an experiment I did to see how well fresh flowers would scan onto scrap book paper. Freshly cut flowers from our garden (tiny rose buds, golden cosmos, wee daisies, cone flowers, etc.) were placed face down on the scanner. Book markers cut from various colors of scrap book paper were placed lightly atop each arrangement with a large piece of black paper atop all of them. The lid of the scanner was carefully closed and pressed just tight enough so as to not allow any light to escape out. The pictures projected onto the paper were quite unique and beautiful. It was quite an interesting project and I was delighted with the finished project even though much more work needs to be done to perfect it.

Backyard Pond Serves Year Round

It's hard to think that it's been so long since I've visited this blog. Summer season came and went so quickly. The garden produced well and I hope to relate much of that experience in upcoming blogs. Now, however we are inundated with an early snowstorm that brought us approximately twenty inches of snow - and that before the first day of winter arrived. Quite a contrast from last year. If this is a preview of what winter has in store, already it has provided time to work on some indoor artistic projects put off far too long. And that is a good thing. In upcoming posts I plan to publish stories and photos about some of them- presenting the thrills, humor, joy, satisfaction and learning experience our natural and beautiful backyard provides, not just throughout summer months but every single day of the year.

The above photo is of our tiny water garden that hosts two large koi fish and three frogs, as well as providing drinking water for a host of birds.