Ever pressed any leaves? My wife does. Then she forgets about them.
I found this one buried in a stack of books and stuff, one of my piles I was searching through for something else today. I didn’t find what I was looking for but I found this leaf.
I really didn’t get the color so well. The shape is accurate. It’s actually a very red wine color but opaque. That, as it turns out is fairly hard to replicate in watercolor unless one spends a lot of time on the painting.
Seeing as how it’s just a sketch, I can live with the inaccuracy of the color. The main thing is I was inspired to study, sketch and record something…thus learn.
And so I did…
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