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Enchantingly natural: Flower images. A traditional art form revitalized: Natural compositions created from pressed plants. From selecting the flowers used to pressing them and designing the images with symmetry and color. Jennie Ashmore demonstrates how to create aesthetic pictures using the rediscovered art of pressed flowers: from choosing the materials (ranging from flowers to leaves to seagrass), to various pressing techniques, designing with pressed flowers and leaves, creating symmetry, using color, and combining the pressed plant material with watercolor and gouache, painted backgrounds, or gold and silver paper. The experienced author provides numerous insider tips, and a plant directory at the end of the book allows readers to see what specific plants look like after pressing. A stunningly beautiful book that modernly interprets a traditional art form.