Fair Rosamund in dried flowers

This was one of my dried flower art projects last year (see my original Rosamund post).

Rosamund in dried flowers before & after

This is what it looked like before, and there were aspects I wasn’t happy with.

 How I improved my dried flowers picture

Rather than gluing down every last petal like I did previously, this time I added loose dried flowers to build up the surface – so it’s very much temporary now!

As you can see from the above photo, I built up the hair with dried orange slices – I love the effect it creates. I decorated her hair with a cluster of pink rosebuds (unfortunately the actual Rosa Mundi dried roses I made earlier in the year were no longer around to use for this.)

The background at  the top was made from a sprinkling of preserved hydrangea florets. They were originally intended to represent a bottle glass wall, but my skills were not up to the job!

I reshaped her lips with freeze dried red rose petals, and I quite like the kissed lipstick look she now sports.

I rebuilt the wall at the bottom of the picture in cloves and dried delphinium flower petals, and boosted her pink dress with more petals.

So I now have two bare areas remaining – her gold necklace and hands. I can think of some ideas for her necklace, but her hands may prove difficult if they are to be fully resolved from her neck and dress.

Here is another attempt I made last year at dried flower art – a union jack for the jubilee – in retrospect I should have made this in loose petals too.

More flower petals art

Rossetti’s Bocca Baciata with dried roses and marigolds

See also – some vintage images from the British Library adorned with dry flowers

Shopping Links for dried flowers

You can buy the dried flowers I used in this project from daisyshop.co.uk:
Delphinium petals  |   Freeze dried rose petals   |  Hydrangea petals   |   Rhodanthus flowers
Cloves   |   Orange slices

Do let me know what you think of my dried flower art!