Leaves and Leaves and Leaves!

Welcome!

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‘J is for Jack Frost’ From “The Fairy Alphabet”
By Fanny Young Cory
1877 - 1972

I got to crunch some leaves today.

Big, dry, crunchy leaves!

I kind of forgot how fun that was.

When is the last time you crunched some leaves?

Unknown photographer

This kaleidoscope always makes me think of Indian corn colors.

Kaleidoscope by inkspired

I came across a very interesting Leaf Craft, 

While browsing through Pinterest.

Aren’t those cool looking?

Anybody can ‘doodle’.

I would use a juicy white paint pen, so as to not tear the leaf.

The top photo shows more ‘zentangle’ type decoration,

While the bottom photo appears to be more doodling style.

W. Wordsworth quote

Unknown artist

I am saving a zentangle post for later.

People do quite a bit more with leaves and art also.

Sam Larson draws tiny silhouette scenes on his leaves:

Leaf art by Sam Larson

This Indonesian artist uses strong coffee to paint leaves with:

Ghidaq al-Nizar aka ‘coffeetopia’

Wow!

Take a look outside.

Take a short walk, even if it is just down your driveway

Or around the block.

Unknown credits

Enjoy the Leaves!

A Coles Phillips ‘fade-away’ girl painting.

October 1917 magazine cover art

Why not invite someone else to go on the walk with you?

October 1917 magazine cover

‘Til next time,

inkspired

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Painting the Leaves

Welcome!

vintage Ladies' Home Journal magazine cover

November, 1919

artist: Frank Godwin

"Winter is an etching,

Spring a watercolor,

Summer an oil painting

and

Autumn a mosaic of them all."

- Stanley Horowitz

Heidelberg, Germany  2010

"Listen! the wind is rising,

and the air is wild with leaves,

We have had our summer evenings,

now for October eves!"

- Humbert Wolfe

jigsaw puzzle, completed

"In a touch of nature

the whole world is kin."

- John Muir, nature conservationist

Hans Hoffmann, 1530 - 1591

a Prague artist

New Moon

"The bright, thin, moon appears.

Tipped askew in the heavens.

It no sooner shines over

The ruined fortress than the

Evening clouds overwhelm it.

The Milky Way shines unchanging

Over the freezing mountains

Of the border. White frost covers

The garden. The chrysanthemums

Clot and freeze in the night."

- Tu Fu, a Chinese poet

artist: Qin Xing, Chinese artist

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There comes a time

when

autumn asks,

'What have you been doing

all summer?'

artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw

"For Man, autumn is a time of harvest,

of gathering together.

For Nature, it is a time of sowing,

of scattering abroad."

- Edwin Way Teale

"In the Orchard" by Franz Dvorak, 1912

courtesy of my-museum-of-art.blogspot.com

"Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined

And spreads a common feast

for all that live."

 - James Thomson

artist: Mr. Ou Yang, a Chinese painter

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"With all things

and

in all things,

we are relatives."

- Sioux Proverb

In His hands

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until next time,

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hand beaded netted necklace by inkspired

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