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Here’s What’s Happening In The daMuse Sidebar This Week

Renowned floral artist Naoki Sasaki has a new book coming out that gives us a look at one of Japan’s master floral designers. Japanese Contemporary Floral Art is the first image under the “Blooming” section of the sidebar. While you are there, take a look at three other beautiful resources for botanical inspiration: Orchidelirium, The Metamorphosis of Flowers and Intimacy: The Sensual Essence of Flowers.

Naoki Sasaki Floral Art

And did you see the book about Flower Pounding? Have you heard of it? This is something new to me.

You pound flowers onto treated fabric, transferring the pigments and shape of the flower onto the fabric, and then embellish the image with markers and stitching.  Image transfers of a different kind. It’s on my list of things to try this month.  Number 54.  The list keeps growing.

More Fun In The Sidebar

Another poll (I’m still gathering information about daMuse readers in an effort to make the blog better), two books that will be coming out soon (but you can pre-order them now), and several new advertisers (watch this space for more information soon about advertising on Daily Art Muse!).