Comic book artist Tim Sale died recently. In his memory I’ve been reading some of his work. He did excellent things with watercolors, so in honor of his artistic style I decided to get some watercolors out and give them a try with the most recent leaf ghost.
This one’s a first in the series for watercolors, obviously. In the past – especially with gouache and markers – I’ve tried with varying degrees of success to get nice, even tones in the geometry of the pictures. Here I didn’t even try. Instead I had fun playing around with the paint and deliberately getting blotchy, uneven textures.
This is also the first composition with more than one leaf in it. I took the source photo in Northern Arkansas a couple of months ago, and it featured a small, newly-fallen leaf on top of an older, darker one. And the bigger leaf was so round that this became the first leaf ghost with empty top and bottom rows
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