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  • Rita Ford
    • Dec 25, 2019
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How to create a Hummingbird on the Pressed Plant Art.

Updated: Jan 7, 2020

In this article, I’ll show how to create the Pressed Plant Art with a Hummingbird. You will see photos of botanical materials and the sketch for the Pressed Plant Art.


Pressed Plant Art "Hummingbird". A Humming bird is flying above the group of Larkspur flowers..
Pressed Plant Art "Hummingbird"

The background for the Pressed Plant Art is made of petals of Pansies purple color.
The background for the Pressed Plant Art is made of petals of Pansies purple color.

Sketch of the Hummingbird for Pressed Plant Art.
Sketch of the Hummingbird for Pressed Plant Art

Dried under press botanical materials: petals of flowers of Pansy, helichrysum, clover; leaves of Ornamental Cabbage, wiping willow, azalea, peony; flowers of Larkspur with stems.
Dried under press botanical materials: petals of flowers of Pansy, helichrysum, clover; leaves of Ornamental Cabbage, wiping willow, azalea, peony; flowers of Larkspur with stems.

One of the Hummingbird’s wings is made of a leaf of pear, another one is made of butterfly’s wing. I’m placing and looking at prepared by me plants on the figure of Hummingbirds on the piece of paper.


Dried pieces of plants on the piece of paper with figure of Hummingbird for Pressed Plant Art.
One of the Hummingbird’s wings is made of a leaf of pear, another one is made of butterfly’s wing.

I started to glue pressed plants on the figure of Hummingbird from bottom to top. I used pieces of wildflower white color and pieces of leaves of Ornamental Cabbage.

The figure of Hummingbirds with glued pressed plants on it.
The figure of Hummingbirds with glued pressed plants on it.

Step by step I'm filling up the figure of the Hummingbird. I added pieces of clover.

The figure of Hummingbird for Pressed Plant Art with pieces of Clover, Ornamental Cabbage and Wildflower.

For red color throat, I added petals of Helichrysum.

The figure of Hummingbird for Pressed Plant Art with pieces of Ornamental Cabbage, Clover, Wildflower, Helichrysum.
The figure of Hummingbird for Pressed Plant Art with pieces of Ornamental Cabbage, Clover, Wildflower, Helichrysum.

The only place for the wings is left in the figure of Hummingbird. I added petal of Pansy dark blue color for the beak, parts of leaves of Peony and Whipping Willow for the head, parts of Pear leaf for the legs.

The figure of Hummingbird for Pressed Plant Art with pieces of Ornamental Cabbage, Clover, Wildflower, Helichrysum, Pear leaf, Peony leaf, Wiping Willow leaf, Pansy petal.
The figure of Hummingbird for Pressed Plant Art with pieces of Ornamental Cabbage, Clover, Wildflower, Helichrysum, Pear leaf, Peony leaf, Wiping Willow leaf, Pansy petal.

I'm gluing the flowers of Larkspur on the background and prepared figure of Hummingbird, wings. Dried Pressed Plant Art I vacuum seal.

To create my Pressed Plant Art with image of the Hummingbird I was inspired by real Hummingbirds.


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