We are doing so well at the moment, as my weather forecasting is well and truly up the spout. A lovely walk today and three days soaking walks on the run! But lets be positive and look at nature slightly differently today.

      

and then a different way again.

The bottom picture first, many say that Autumn is the fungus season, to be fair that's not quite true as they are around all the year round ; but maybe they are a little more up front at this time of the year. Well today I passed about a dozen of these beauties at Hatchlands. Not being an expert I think it is an Orange Birch Bolete, whatever it was, it was about 10 inches high and the same across. I have no idea if it is edible or not but it certainly is impressive.

Now the first picture. A simple fun process,

1  Gather leaves

2  Lightly glue them to paper.

3   Us an atomizer (perfume spray) full of water colour paint. to spray the whole thing.

4   Allow to dry and repeat the spraying, many times, with different autumn colours. Then allowing             time for the creation to properly dry.

5   Remove leaves and glue. You might need a very sharp knife.

6   Do a careful ink drawing on the negative image of the leaf  which is left behind on the paper. Use a          dip pen, Biro, fountain pen, pencil., crayon or whatever.

It takes a little while, especially the drying, but is a super way of capturing autumn in a fun way, which if a little care is taken with; will look impressive.. 

Regards Duncan