How are the orchids made
Each miniature is made indiviually; being a artistic
work, it can’t be made in large scale, and just as in nature, there won’t be
two identical pieces.
All the component parts of the plant are made
separately, first the petals, then the sepals, the lip, the roots, the
pseudobulbs, the leaves, the spathe and the roots, and then the artist unites
these parts with a special glue and puts it in a vase with substrate. For the
confection of these parts, the artist develops its own tools, which may vary
according to the species represented, meaning that the tools used to make a
Paphiopedilum, for example, are totally different from those used to make a
Cattleya. Furthermore, after the tools, manually molded adjustments are
necessary. After that, it starts the manual painting.
The painting seeks to ensure details such as mosses
that form in the vase, the subtleties of variation of the green tones on the
leaves (usually sprouts have a lighter shade of green than the older leaves),
the straws that form around the pseudobulbs among other important details. In
particular, the lip paint requires more care and attention, first by the
difficulties imposed by the small size and second the need to achieve as much similarity
as possible, considering the factor that this part is the one that resembles
the original plant.