More Croton Leaves
When I had my art reception in November, I needed some in-progress pieces to show. Since I had recently completed Croton Leaves, (and since it was small and quick to copy,) I started two more versions of it.
For Croton Leaves 2, I decided to work in a slightly subdued color way. I started by loosely drawing the leaf shapes onto the background fabric. As they became covered by fabric, I resketched, as needed, using a Frixion pen. (I love those.)
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(I don’t normally make any sort of pattern, but at this scale I thought I needed to. And it was easy to print out the design on one piece of paper, so why not?)
I knew I wanted to let the background fabric show through as the veins of the leaves, but intially I cut the fabrics to fit pretty accurately.
Later, I pulled the pieces apart slightly to reveal the dark background. I’m really happy with this piece! (Yes, these colors are my version of subdued.)
Croton Leaves 2 is 10″ x 7″. Available for purchase, $89.
For Croton Leaves 3 I went back to my favorite vivid colors.
I love the result!
Croton Leaves 3 is 10″ x 8″. Available for purchase, $95.
It was fun to work on these small projects. Maybe I’ll do some more.
Ellen Lindner
