I just got a book about nature printing and it has a chapter about “flower pounding.” It’s just what it says, stick some flowers/leaves on a substrate and pound them with a hammer. I couldn’t believe it would actually work, and I love the idea of answering, “Whatchya doing?” With, “pounding flowers.” So it tried with some leaves and it actually works!
The red is leaves from staghorn sumac. Green is sage. The yellow is from a Norway maple leaf that didn’t really work. My mind is just blown that this actually works! I did it on watercolor paper but I’ve seen projects on tshirts and tote bags. Just need to iron to heat set the colors.
