Rain's Thursday Art Date (TAD): Leaves and branches

 

Today I'm joining Rain with the theme leaves and branches.

  Let's start with Eco-dying using leaves found in my yard.

Here is another time I used leaves to eco-dye on fabric.

I used to create a mandala every Monday.  I miss it.  These are herb from my garden.  There is lemongrass, over which I laid basil.  Cilantro was in four places near the large leaves which were cut from my zucchini squash plant.

Here's another mandala made with flowers found in my garden.  There are iris leaves, hosta leaves, baby's breath, rose petals, decorative sage flowers, and Rose of Sharon.

I used a few leaves during a gelatin printing marathon.  I created the gelatin plate using unflavored gelatin packets.  The leaves were Lily of the Valley.

Leaves from my yard were paired with blue and bisque glazes to create this gelatin print on cotton fabric.

Yet another mandala using leaves in my early November garden and yard.  The yellow and brown leaves are from my  large elm tree, the green leaves are vinca vine leaves, and the rest are rose hips I saved from my rose bush.

These leaves are fresh herbs from my garden, including sage, rosemary, dill seed, and cilantro.

Artwise, I  created this for a friend using some of my handmade paper, leaves, and grasses from my yard.  The back was pink and red paint over gesso on a book cover.

I was just playing around with leaves on a used file folder and acrylic paint I dry brushed over the leaves.

I used silk leaves on a journal page for a challenge.

These leaves were part of a challenge.  The leaves were cut from an old phone book.

Ginkgo leaves were stamped on this page for a challenge.  This is how it turned out after I added the sentiment.

I love making bird collages.

I enjoy recycling can lids and adding various heads and legs.  I like to use leaves as wings.  The last one qualifies for branches on which the owl sits.

This journal page was for a challenge.  The sentiment, which is hard to read, is "Season of thanks."

Here are leaves for another eco-dye session.

And another. 

And yet another.

I love flower pounding irises in spring.

I thought this turned out great.

I tried to create a bit of humor in my altered book, but my handwriting sucks.  Sentiment reads "Autumn leaves us leaves."

This is a recent page I created for a challenge.

I don't make many tags, but I am proud of this one I made for a challenge.

I fused leaves on wood using beeswax.

I could go on and on and on and on, but you would be as bored as Bleubeard is right now.  Needless to say, I think it's only fitting to end with a journal page Bleubeard recently put together.

He asked me to write the sentiment, but he picked out all the dried leaves and flowers he wanted used.

All art was created by me.  Bleubeard provided moral support and input on the final entry.  All photos were taken by me.

Thank you beyond belief for stopping by today.  I am truly grateful to you, my dear friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join Bleubeard and me at Rain's TAD.