Amity Katharine Libby – Paper Dinner Plate Dahlia
A visual guide to a paper flower
Course Curriculum
- Welcome to the course–meet Amity
- Dip dying paper
- Supplies
- Supplies recap
- Cutting petals distinct to the variety
- Shaping and bundling petal sets
- Building the armature
- Gluing the petals
- Calyx
- Finishing the dahlia
- Mini dahlias
- A half dozen!
- Tips on styling for social media
- Social media tags to use
- Review
Holiday update: I posted some new content on this lesson, a quick and easy video on how to change the recipe to make a half dozen. Enjoy.
Dahlia ‘Labyrinth’ arrives in summer and produces bountiful blooms until frost. This dinner plate variety produce huge flower heads prized in design and event work. Truth be told, these divas don’t like to travel au natural, so florists look for local growers, and are now turning to paper as a fantastic, luxurious complement. These dahlias are hand-colored for nuance through dip-dying.
You will learn:
Dip dying and other coloration
Petal cutting, shaping, and gluing
Armature
Calyx
Finishing
Your Instructor
A Master of Science in Education with a dozen years in the classroom, plus roles writing curriculum, connecting classrooms, writing policy, and organizing data, Amity is a teacher, writer, artist, and friend.
She is the principal behind the creative education studio, flower and jane. Her online art school features teaching artists from around the world with over 1500 students enrolled in creative botanical education courses.
Amity and her family live on a 50-acre forest farm in the foothills of western Maine. They love to have adventures in nature!
Amity has been featured on Channel 8 News, DownEast, Veranda, and the Bangor Daily News. Her artwork is represented by the Good Supply.
Amity’s research on open educational resources was federally funded during the Obama administration. She has presented at the state level and internationally in the field of teaching with technology. She has written curriculum for Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens as well as for her own company and hosted two educational conferences on biodiversity and conservation for Maine teachers.
Sale Page: https://www.flowerandjane.com/p/paperdahlia
Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/UGS08