Leaves Are Falling in Maine

 

Fall has come to Maine. And as beautiful as it is, it also means winter is coming. I am hoping fall will stay here for awhile before we have to contend with the snow. Our yard is usually the last place for the leaves to change colors around here, but as you can see our trees are lightening up just fine! 

Tracy Weinzapfel is currently leading a class called GrateFALL HeART Journal Challenge and the second day we worked with leaves. Real ones collected from our yards. Mark and I walked our tree line and picked up several different kinds - that I forgot to take photos of. So here you see two dried up ones I pulled out of the trash but they give you an idea. I used about four or five different leaves in my art.

I began by prepping two pages. Schmincke watercolors and they are still wet in this photo. I tried to go with colors that we have in our yard. 

And dry. I love the colors! You know, Tracy charges for this class. So, I can not tell you step by step what we did. But I think you are smart enough to guess. 

When we gathered leaves I grabbed up one off the ground that had all the leaves still intact. I really like the ghosting effect I was able to achieve. 

From there I followed the steps I usually do. Don't you love how the leaves just start coming to life? 

Steps. Steps. Follow the yellow brick road. If you follow any of my other art you will be able to figure these steps out. 

Here it is finished and with the tape removed. That finishing vignette step makes the colors pop. Remember at the beginning I said I prepped two pages? 

Here is the start of the second piece. After the ghosting had been done. 

And after all the detail work. These were so much fun to do! And they are an accurate representation of both the types of leaves we have in our yard and of what they look like. Pretty cool, I think!

I will be working towards getting back up to speed with all the things I have been doing in the past. With one exception. I will not be agreeing to do everything like I once did. If you ask me to participate in an event, I will if I can and if I have the time. I need to pace myself better than I have in the past. I don't want these past couple health-related months to repeat themselves. Patience, young Padawan, patience. 

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