What do you call this?

[metalspinner]

I've seen prints of tree leaves with flowers and fruits framed up really nice.  What are these displays called?  I've been thinking of making some shadow box displays like this with real leaves, bark, fruit, and flowers to hang in the house.  The frames would be made of the wood from the displayed species.

I just don't know what to call it.  Any ideas?

[TexasTimbers]

I would probably not know, but i have no chance at all without a picture. 

[beenthere]

Maybe a "diorama" ?

diorama construction 

I fixed it to work. Sorry. 

[Tom]

The artistic term is "Still Life".  

It's when you arrange inanimate objects or flowers and fruits in a picture.

It could also be a collage.

[TexasTimbers]

How about just calling it a display case? I think shadow box is it tho.

[Jeff]

Message Don P and tell him to post some of his photos of the stuff his wife does. I think I know what you are talking about.   Better yet, I'll send him this thread.

[Don P]

For the Christmas season she has been making cone wreaths and ornaments using spruce and hemlock's small cones. Hot glue works good for lots of that kind of work.
There's a coupla moss wreaths around too.We haven't done a shadow box, that sounds neat. For cards she arranges natural objects on the scanner and then prints the cards. I've been meaning to try using the scanner for an end grain microscope. Don't ask me how deep daffodil pollen can get inside one of those machines  .

She's cranked out some killer cookies for the holidays too, I try to be useful and dispose of the defects.

Jeff, if you noticed on the backside of the block I sent was a leaf embedded in the epoxy finish. I havent gotten good at it yet, tried to make a tray with ferns and leaves, they rose up. I think its another potential though. If I can figure that out I want a forest floor coffee table top.

[metalspinner]

Thanks everyone.

Don, that sure is a pretty picture.  Have you done any drying or pressing?  I'm pretty sure that if I seal up vegetation under glass it needs to be dry.  I wonder if the microwave can dry  leaves and such without color change.

[metalspinner]

This is close to what I had in mind.  It just needs to be presented a little nicer.

http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1422.pdf   

They, of course, just call it a display.

[TexasTimbers]

How about just calling it a display case?

They, of course, just call it a display.

The gall! What hicks. 

[SwampDonkey]

metalspinner, if you take fall leaves and lay them in the fridge to dry slowly, they will retain their color for quite awhile. I don't know how many months. But, if you press them flat between a  couple layers of glass and allow the air to get in the sides then they will dry flat, and not curl. I put a couple large toothed aspen leaves in the fridge to dry, but not pressed, and they are still the same orange color they were in late September. I taped them to a frame I had of a couple of maples in fall color. So now they are subject to the drying of the furnace air. Still orange though. 

[metalspinner]

Thanks for the tips, Donk.

It looks like this will be a year long project.  If I want to collect leaves and seeds and flowers from the trees. I will come up with a design by spring so The collections can begin right away.

Chris