2013: Take Two

Here is another direction that I have jaunted off to. I have actually been meaning to since fall, but have only just gotten around to it. Leaf portraits:

This was the first that I painted from a leaf I found online.

This one also came from an image I scoured.

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Having exhausted the images from the internet that I thought good enough, I had to see out the real thing. It was a little late for fall leaves, but I managed to find a few. This is one... titled Number 5.

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I went with Katie to Urgent Care when she was sick and who'd have thought you could find a leaf like this in the midst of December.

Six. This is actually an 8" x 10" though all the others are 5" x 7"