Hoarding for the future

Absolutely scrumptious dried grasses, collected at the start of our present drought, hung to keep intact. Waiting now for inclusion in my paper-making and botanical contact printing for the next round of mindfulness books. Excited. 

21/08/2017 Botanical contact printing

Explorations with frozen rose petals, copper and other mordants. Part of my current attempts to make books. This felt would be a book cover, if I can align my alchemy to create appropriate pages to put inside it. Anyway, such a nice change in palette from so much of my botanical dying work which tends to be heavier and more in the brown/black shading with heavy olive greens.

Exciting alchemy