#pressed plants

[koenji]

pressed flowers png.

[lilarus]

Another wildly belated post but presenting you with:

✨TES Fest '24✨

Day 7!

C O M P A N I O N OR 🄵 🄰 🄻 🄻 🄴 🄽

(i skipped day 6 bc i have a really cool idea but i couldn't get it done in time)

[alt text: Drawing of a Redguard (oc: Achest) on a faux fur lined funeral barge/"viking funeral", simple physical model of a canoe on top of plastic sheets with fake flowers and pressed plants, wave emulating light]

This is 𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 one of Misunmar's partners! This is Achest Dhovta, an older Redguard. I'll drop some lore about them below !

plus progress pics

This is Achest ! They are Sunny's 4th partner, and the last one to join the polycule. She is a transwoman that uses she/her and they/them. This is the first instance into what she looks like and I kinda stumped myself by wondering if I should make her old in this, like she possibly actually would be in this scenario, or if I make younger her to see what she looked like in her prime. As you can see, I went for the latter. The ghost of Sunny possessed me. I had to do it.

At some stage I'll probably actually introduce Misunmar and his partners properly but for now you get random little crumbs 🫶

progress pics below

[inmytreehouse]

Some pages from my old art journal (2015-2021) // part 2

[lionfloss]

NMNH - Botany Dept.

Dichapetalum ugandense Moss

[khajiithaswitchywares]

I pressed my four leaf clover! 🍀🥰

[tiny-glued-things]

Miniature fern herbarium specimen with illustration. I'm pretty happy with the tiny staples.

A mini reproduction of an actual herbarium specimen (below). Image courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden (https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/).

[ramune-raven-art]

Pressed plants

[elisewehle]

[ezekieltobiasfletcher]

Pressing some of my Spiderwort flowers. 💜

[koenji]

pressed poppies png.

[runfrombarrett]

found pressed leaves in a lyric poetry book from 1840 as well as cards from the 50s in an old bible at the flohmarkt.

[inmytreehouse]

Some more matchbox art 🌼

[plants-and-daydreams]

I finished glueing down all of these pressings I did of various plants I’ve found outside or that have dropped off of my plants. My neck and back were so sore after finishing.

Also, none of you will know how hard it was to take a photo of this without ruining the picture with me and my phone reflecting off the glass (the flash helped to take this away though).

[woodsorrelpainting]

ooough I remembered about my little flower-pressing kit that I have and !! also the flowers I have pressed in the past!!!

(ID: A collection of dried, pressed plants against an off-white/beige background. It's mostly leaves and their stems versus flowers, though there are a couple large flowers in the lower right-hand corner. Notably, two orange trumpet-flowers, a pale purple silverleaf nightshade flower with prominent yellow pistils (? I hope that's right), and a pinkish-purple crepe myrtle flower. /end of ID)

I remember being able to get a lot of these because my dad moved out and none of us knew how to mow the lawn, so there were a bunch of "weeds" growing out back in addition to the few intentionally-planted... plants that were out there as well (tick city...)!! These are all a few years old at this point. Crazy to think about, actually.

But as much as I remember all of that, I don't remember what plants ALL of these came from. Especially the leaves. Though I was thinking about it and I feel like the largest leaves shown here were also from the trumpet-flower (also, I believe, called the "devil's shoelaces"... I believe that based on how prolific this plant was haha). I also remember some of the smaller leaves (perhaps you can't see it, but some of these leaves are "dappled") are from a "polka-dot plant" that I was taking care of for a while that died in a move. I miss that plant.

I believe the long, thin grasses (left-hand side) were "bermuda grass" that ended up flowering. I remember being to thoroughly fascinated when I realized that the little fuzzy-looking bits on the grass may've been FLOWERS, of all things. I didn't (and still don't) have a microscope or anything so I was unable to get a good look for myself, but I pressed them anyways. And the reason I'm confident about it being "bermuda grass" is because I remember my family putting down sod when we first moved to that house... Partly cuz I helped and it was so much work lmao.

One more thing that I might be remembering is that we had a lot of a plant that I struggled to identify growing in the backyard. AND I WOULD LIKE TO Clarify that I am not an expert!! This is very much JUST a hobby! Anyways, I think I settled on a plant (type of plant?) called "ragweed" due to knowing how quickly it spread and the way it looked/grew. It was a tall plant with, frankly, beautiful bunches of cute little white flowers. I never touched them a whole lot because I read somewhere that they can cause contact dermatitis... and I didn't really want to find out the hard way.

Anyways, I hope y'all think this as cool as I do. I also have some carnations that I pressed at my mom's request, so maybe I'll remember to scan those in too... We'll see.

Have a good day.

[tiny-glued-things]

I made a miniature herbarium! Used a kit as a base, but then crafted the herbarium cabinet, plant press, and lots of specimens.

(Modified from kit: Elegant Studio)

[ramune-raven-art]

Flowers + camp camp dragon au doodles