#botanical sculptures

[miamaimania]

Metallic Mushrooms: Roxy Paine's Fungal Sculptures

[boschintegral-photo]

Chrysanthemum Dinosaurs Kyoto, Japan

[theenbyroiderer]

Just my big dandelion again. Was planning to take it apart and put it away, but it's not gathering that much dust so I'll leave it out for now. Got a big plant for my birthday that will need that space come autumn though, so will have to put it away in a few months anyway.

[emaadsidiki]

Carl Linnaeus Sculpture at Chicago Botanic Garden 🌿

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Montreal, Canada Botanical Gardens.

[itscolossal]

Textile Sculptures by Lauren Pruen Preserve Elegant Botanical Specimens Under Glass

[beach-love-sparkles2]

~Flowers in bloom 💕~

[hopefulkidshark]

Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Cascade glass sculpture, Adelaide Australia: Cascade Designed by Sergio Redegalli this sculpture has 500 precision cut pieces of 6mm clear glass glued to the shape of a cascading wave. Sergio Redegalli is an Australian glass artist specialising in glass sculptures. He is an owner of the Cydonia Glass Studio located in Newtown, New South Wales. Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia; Wikipedia

[die-rosastrasse]

𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌, 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒕

Analog photography, September 2022

[miamaimania]

Flora Fantasia: Solange Pessoa's Botânica

[fatchance]

Dressed Woman, Fernando Botero, bronze, cast in 2018.

At the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.

[theenbyroiderer]

Fern for the mushroom sculpture I'm working on.

[etherealyearning]

L'Amour Captif de la Jeunesse ("Love, Captive of Youth) ca. 1850-1900

The Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Ca

Inside the Rose Garden, a recently restored 18th-century French stone tempietto housing a statue entitled 'Love, the Captive of Youth', depicting cupid and his captor, a fair maiden. Appropriately, the tempietto is encircled by a bed of 'Passionate Kisses' roses.

Roses were a particular favorite flower of Arabella Huntington. The garden was designed primarily for display, providing copious quantities of cut blooms for the large elaborate floral arrangements favored in their home. Household records indicate that in one year alone more than 30,000 flowers were used in these massive bouquets, 9,700 of which were roses.

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Sculpture installation - in one of the greenhouses at Denver Botanic Gardens

[msnogood]

The Making of Strange Flower

Somehow I never showed my process of strange flower's creation. Below are the materials and steps.

Materials I used:

Yellow wool (mine was yellow yarn that I carded myself with a carding brush / pet brush)

Cheaper white core wool (mine was recycled fluffs from poly batting of my pandemic-era grocery delivery packing liners)

Glass pins for eyes

Air dry clay (mine was green paper clay and wood pulp clay but you can color air dry clay with some acrylic paint)

Wood glue (for water resistance), or PVA glue (if you don’t care for water resistence)

A good stick. I got mine from an old messed up artificial flower.

Felting needles

Felting base foam (I used recycled polyurethane packing foam blocks from my online orders)

To make a strange flower:

Start by felting the base of your flower’s face. You can speed up this process by wet-felting with soapy water mid way. It should end up looking like a concave cookie.

Then start to layer some yellow wool on top of your core wool cookie. Cover all the whites.

Then start to add details like cheeks, chin, and lips. You can test-place your flower’s eyes to better figure out the placement of your flower’s cheeks.

Then cut your glass pins short, bend the pin slightly downward (so it’s long enough to hold its position but won’t stick out the back of your flower’s head), and insert the beady eyes.

Start molding the desired flower petal shapes of your choice. I wanted mine to be plump. So I made it plump. Let it dry a bit. Then I added a water-down layer of wood glue and smooth out my clay petal. Poke a hole at the center of the petal about the size of the artificial stem.

Tip: If you’re also using an artificial flower stem, try to mold the base of your flower petal to fit into the stem head’s shape. Mine was a bit flat and ended up having a big gap and I had to use more glue to fill the void and it took ages to dry. Save any artificial petals you can salvage. Incorporate the ones that work with your strange flower. The rest can be materials for another project someday.

Once completely dry, pin your petals onto your artificial flower stem with some wood glue or PVA glue at its base.

Once the clay petal is dried and secured on the artificial flower stem, carefully poke your flower head on top.

And a strange flower is born! 🌷

[yunkert]