Create a more complex artwork - Part 3: Finishing your pressed flower meadow

Creating a Complex Artwork - Part 3: Finishing Your Pressed Flower Meadow

With the composition finalised, it's now time to begin glueing everything down - a process best approached systematically.

You Will Need:

• Your artwork of pressings on the mount board
• Scissors
• Scrap paper
• Glue - we use Mod Podge in the matt finish
• Small paint brush
• Pins
• Tweezers

Finishing the Artwork

Rather than glueing the artwork layer by layer, it's best to glue in sections working from left to right.

Step 1: Roughly divide your piece into sections.

Step 2: Take a photograph of this smaller section, and familiarise yourself with all of the details.

Step 3: Remove the specimens from the page layer by layer and place them to one side.

Step 4: When you get down to the first layer, use pins or tape to mark the placement.

Step 5: Glue and secure each specimen, as detailed in the lesson 'Create a pressed flower artwork: Butterfly Ranunculus'.

Step 6: Repeat this process for each layer until the section is completely secure.

Step 7: Once the section is complete, move on to the next section and continue working until the piece is all glued down. It doesn't need to all be glued down in one sitting - it's pretty fiddly work so you might want to come back to it across several days.

Step 8: Place some clean paper onto the artwork, and then weigh it down with books.

Step 9: When you have completely finished the artwork, it can be framed with UV protection art glass and hung on the wall to be admired and enjoyed!