I really liked this idea but (so far) instead of putting images inside the bottles I decided to use some flowers that I had dried just for my own interest. I have done four bottles so far and think it will be really interesting trying to find different ways to display the flowers using the bottles.
The first bottle was inspired by Demi's bottles from the exhibition (they were attached to a piece of wood using ribbon). The second was inspired by the way the first dried flower lost some of its buds (when I was hanging it inside the bottle) and I used all the lost buds I could find to fill the base of the bottle. I then carefully put in three flowers with their stems still attached into the bottle and used the buds to keep them standing. The third bottle was an attempt to create a simplified version of bottle 2, this time using my glue gun to attach the flower to the outside of the bottle. The fourth bottle used the idea of the lost buds from bottles 1 and 2 but instead used the spikey leafy bits from the flower stems.
The way the flowers are displayed in this bottle inspired me to use the other flowers on a canvas. I started by covering the canvas in tissue paper (as the flowers are pink I decided to use a pale pink).
I really liked the texture that the paper created on the canvas but I felt it needed another colour so I used a piece of white paper to test out a few possibilities.
In the end I decided to use a butterfly-print white tissue paper to make a hill shape before adding the flowers.
I then worked out where I wanted the flowers to be placed but thought the image looked very flat so I decided to use a small strip of a darker pink to give more depth. Finally, I used my glue gun to attach the flowers to the canvas.
I really like the result and I am thinking of using this and other ideas for my extended specialist techniques unit. Now I just need to find other artists who use similar things in their work...
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