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Tam of Willowing.org had a taster of her new Year of Light. There were about 20 artists who mostly created tons of faces and things I knew I could never create. However, Tiffany Sharpe made some leaves. Mine aren't as elaborate as hers, but at least they are leaves. And they were good enough, I felt I could join Alison/Craftytrog at Art Journal Journey, whose chosen theme for October is Autumn Colors and Inspiration. Detail shots are below.
I began by sectioning the 110 lb. cardstock into two areas: sky and grass. I used the dark blue water soluble crayon at the very top of the page and the lighter blue until it hit the area I intended for grass. For the grass, I used brown, light green, and dark green water soluble crayons. Although Tiffany had some round and other designed leaves, I chose to make mine all basically the same design.The first leaf I created was similar to one of Tiffany's. It is the one in the middle. I used glitter crayons, watercolor pencils, my gold Posca pen, in addition to brown and blue Sharpies. It took me over four hours to create it and I kept having to rest my right hand every so often. I knew then that only one would be like hers. The rest I colored in yellow, red, and brown water soluble crayons and Sharpies. When finished, I drew a line around the leaves using my black Posca pen. I then fussy cut each leaf and adhered each to the page using a glue stick. I had manila cardstock I used to write the words "Leaves of change." You can tell how shaky my hands are from my handwriting.