Nature Printing with Herbs, Fruits and Flowers - Hardcover

In Nature Printing with Herbs, Fruits & Flowers author and artist Laura Donnelly Bethmann leads you step by step through every facet of the nature printing process, from selecting and collecting plants and other subjects to obtaining necessary supplies and producing colorful, delicately textured prints. Readers of all ages and artistic abilities will delight in creating their own "indoor gardens" of framed prints or one-of-a-kind decorations on fabrics, walls, and furnishings.
Nature Printing with Herbs, Fruits & Flowers includes color photographs of finished works by the author and by other noted nature printers throughout the centuries.
Complete project instructions are provided for creating unique stationery, cards, and invitations, nature journals and herbals, and printed fabric for curtains, pillows, linens, quilts, wall hangings, and clothing. There are also plans for decorative finishings and framings for walls and furniture and nature printing projects for children.

As simple as rubber stamping, as beautiful as nature's finest

Anyone can discover the excitement of creating works of art by applying ink or paint directly to leaves, flowers, herbs, and fruits, and pressing life-sized images onto paper, fabric, and other surfaces. Nature printing is a direct, inexpensive technique requiring no artistic experience and offering possibilities as boundless as your imagination and as varied as nature itself. Artist Laura Donnelly Bethmann provides complete step-by-step instructions, illustrated by her own finished works and those of nature printers through the ages.

Create Your Own Unique:

Stationery - cards - quilts - nature journals - herbals - curtain finishings and framings - pillows - linens - clothing - invitations - printed fabric - wall hangings - decorated wall and furniture gift wrap - calendars - projects for children