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For January’s activity, I’ll be detailing my process for creating flat-lay arrangements of found plant materials, and drawing a vivid still life from this composition. My 7 *almost* 8 year old daughter also tested out this process, so we’ll get to see the direction she took for arranging plants and making a drawing (and her feelings about the process.)
When I make still life paintings, I often use scraps of paper to create little sculptural assemblages, and with my recent outdoor sketchbook wanderings I’ve started including some plants in these arrangements. This way of working helps me in a few ways: I get to know plants at a detailed scale while sitting in a warm home (it’s winter), I can experiment with world-building by quickly creating little 3D still life environments, and I can simply enjoy the process of arranging found objects.
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