How do floral ecoimpresiones

Beat the summer but we can still pick any wild or domestic flowers to create beautiful arrangements with them to decorate our home. Or using this technique that we are going to describe, create natural impressions on paper with flowers and plants that we collected. Well for longer retain the beauty of these plants that will decorate our walls.

The printing process of these plants is based on their own natural dyes are transferred to paper and duplicate image and structure.

Materials:

• Flowers and plants or domestic.
• watercolor paper.
• cardboard.
• scissors.
• masking tape.
• heavy thread or string.
• alum.
• brush.
• mace.
• pot or pan that we use for cooking.

Prepare the leaves by cutting watercolor paper to a size that will fit in the pot us. Dissolve 3 or 4 teaspoons of alum in a pint of water and get wet with the solution leaves the brush. No need to let them dry, we can move immediately to the next step.

We put flowers or plants on a half sheet of watercolor paper and fold the other half over, look with masking tape so it does not move the plant, cover the sheets with a few sheets of newspaper and hit the mace. Vegetable dyes are transferred to watercolor paper reproducing the shape and color of the plant.

Will form a package with all the leaves, plants and some cardboard on the outside to give you strength. We'll tie with string the package and have it ready for the next step.

We will have put the pan in water and have a low heat. When hot water will get inside the package and sink with tweezers, stir the package to make sure the water gets good inside. We let simmer ten minutes and then turn off the heat and let cool water.

Rid the package and cut the watercolor paper sheets that surround each issue, we will have two prints of each plant, one of each side. The hang to drain the water and dry out a bit. When they are still slightly damp the will under a pile of books to lie flat leaves.

And when you finally completely dry the lists have to do with them ecoimpresiones mounts we want. An original and natural way to decorate our walls.