3 Ways to Make Art with Nature

Whether you're using flowers to create vibrant colors or harnessing the sun for unique cyanotypes, nature can power art in many different ways. Here, three artists share their methods of blending art and nature. For more, follow along on Skillshare: skl.sh/3Pry9pd
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MAKE ART WITH NATURE QUICK JUMP MENU
00:12 Craft Fine Art with Floral Dye, with Peggy Dean
00:23 Which Flowers to Choose from Your Garden
00:58 Placing flowers on the canvas
01:47 Transferring pigment to the canvas
02:18 The Reveal!
02:38 Draw Flowers
04:07 Dye Fabric with Flowers, with Casey Gallagher Newman
04:23 Lay your Dye Materials on your Fabric
05:05 Roll up Your Scarf
05:34 Getting Ready to Steam
05:55 Steaming Your Fabric Bundle
06:36 Unwrap Your Scarf
07:03 Create Botanical Cyanotypes, with Sarah Rafferty
07:14 Materials You Need
08:06 Placing Your Flowers
08:26 Put in Direct Sunlight
09:02 Wash Your Cyanotype
09:31 Hang to Dry
09:42 Stay Updated on Skillshare
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ABOUT THE TEACHERS
Peggy Dean is native to the Pacific Northwest and loves all things creative. She's dabbled in ballet, fire dancing, crafting, graphic design, traditional calligraphy, hand lettering, painting with acrylics and watercolors, illustrating, creative writing, jazz-you name it. She is the author of the best selling books Nature Drawing & Watercolor, The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide, and Botanical Line Drawing. She craves learning, and in turn, sharing what she's learned with others. Join her for From Nature to Paper: How to Craft Colorful Fine Art with Floral Dye, a Skillshare Staff Pick that shares step-by-step instructions for creating a masterpiece with your own homemade materials: skl.sh/3oBW2zm
Casey Callagher Newman is a naturalist and a textile artist. She dyes fabric using all-natural dyes and prints leaves onto fabric using only the natural pigments found within each leaf. She is inspired by living and working at Cedar Dell Forest Farm (@cedardellforestfarm), her farm in the forest on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Living on a farm makes her appreciate all the gifts that we receive from the land and our animals. She raises Shetland sheep for their fiber and friendly personalities, gathers leaves and natural materials to dye fabric, and grows many of her own dye plants as well as fruit and vegetables. In Natural Dyeing: Bundle Dye Fabric with Vibrant Natural Color, she shares her wealth of knowledge with Skillshare students in a fun, approachable way: skl.sh/3oFAphK
Sarah Rafferty is an artist, a nature lover, lifelong maker, and the owner of Atwater Designs, a cyanotype design studio that creates original cyanotypes, fine art prints, paper goods, textiles, and wallpaper. After teaching for 16 years in the traditional classroom, she decided to take AD full-time, sharing the beauty of this process with the world. Her exploration of nature is an ever-evolving attempt to dissect what is happening with the changing of the seasons and how they can relate to communication. In Intro to Cyanotypes: Creating Beautiful Botanical Prints with Ease, a Skillshare Staff Pick, she shares the basics method behind her cyanotypes and breaks down how you can create your own prints at home: skl.sh/3zjXQ4W

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