This is the second last piece of work for the project.

Eevi had made some lovely prints using leaves at the beginning of the month and I thought I would do that as it looked quite relaxing and straightforward.

I found 2 little canvas boards with masking tape round the edges.. and my left over paint from the big painting I was working on. Then I thought I would use some of the leaves and flowers from the midsummer garlands which were hanging up drying. Sounded lovely.

What a horrible mess that was. They were too little. The paint was too thick I think and all that happened was a splodgey mess.

I went out out and picked some bigger leaves and tried again. More splodges. No matter how hard I pressed on the leaves there was only a vague leaf shape to he seen. At one point I thought I had got a result but it was the actual leaves sticking to the paper I was using to press down with.

I more or less gave up then and used a brush to make the splodges look more interesting. Then I used some yellow glaze over 2 leaf shapes and that made the illusion of some texture.

I thought I might call them “contrived splodges in a border”. It’s just as well the project is nearly finished….. .

Eevi’s efforts made me laugh. She was doing her version of painting someone or something appearing to come out of a log. Only in this case it was coming out of the log box.

We are definitely at the end of our resources……