The changes in the colors of leaves from green, yellow,
oranges and reds are spectacular during the autumn months. As a kid, and even
now, I’d walk on dried leaves just to hear the crunchy sound they made under my
shoes. My Ombre take on the
More Than Words challenge this month was used to emphasize the encased bejeweled leaf by cutting out various sized
leaf shapes on several book pages and painting them in different hues of the
color green.
I carried over the Ombre effect on the large watercolor leaf
by water coloring a very dark green color next to the leaf shape and adding
water to my brush to extend the dark color out and lightening it with water on
my brush during each layer. Then I
dragged my watercolor brush with the lightest
green color out onto the book page to add interest.
The leaves were made out of watercolor paper, stamps mists,
mica powders and watercolors. After the
media was dried, I crumbled the paper leaves in the palm of my hand many times
to break down the paper fibers until the leaves were soften. I created veins on the leaves by folding the
paper at the various points on the leaf pattern and crimping the folds with my
thumb finger nails to add some dimension.
I took the sharp edge of the scissors and ran it down the vein to distress
the leaf even more.
Here's close up of the first page of the bejeweled leaf:
Come on over to More Than Words
here and find out all the specifics to create your "Change" and "Ombre" art, and submit it for chance to win a very generous prize.
