Thursday, October 11, 2007

Red Fall Leaf

This is just a fast watercolor sketch I did of a pretty red leaf I found while on my daily walk. The leaf on the left is the real one. I enclosed it in some packing tape and then adhered it to my sketch book, placing it next to the one I painted. Soon enough all the fall leaves will be gone ... only a memory, replaced with wind rain and cold weather.

4 comments:

  1. TERRIFIC, Nancy!!! I love how you got just the right colors!!!! Good job on the shape and shading too!

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  2. Thanks Lin. I was in the beginning of finding just the right red for some poinsettia's I'm working on.

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  3. I love fall and the mementos it brings along.

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  4. Hi Nancy. Just noticed that you are a NW island dweller as am I (Canadian version) ;-)
    Love your autumn leaves! All of them. I would like to mimic your outside the borders painting, I always forget how much I love that effect. Thanks so much for the motivation I've recieved from browsing your site this morning. Doubtful that it'll come to anything but that is no concern of yours, I'll just have to kick my own butt.

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