Leaf Ghost #216

A grey and blue ghost for a grey and rainy day. Tombow N49 and N95 background, 515 and 528 leaf and N25 shadow.

Leaf Ghost #215

In lieu of National Novel Writing Month (rest in peace), this November my project is to at least start getting my diary caught up. The last entry I wrote was in July 2022, though I have notes for most of the days since. Clearly I have a lot of work to do.

On the days when I completed a leaf ghost, I’m including a beginning-to-end set of images of the work in progress. Which of course means that I need to print out nearly 200 of these four picture strips. Just getting them set up in InDesign is taking awhile.

For today’s ghost, I want to start working with leaves that don’t look like leaves. I’m pretty sure this one started life on an oak tree, but it took some interesting twists and turns since it was a bud. It almost becomes completely abstract, which brings the project back to where it started decades ago.

I also like the color combination. Copic earth tones (E09 Burnt Sienna and E04 Lipstick Natural) have just enough red and the blue greens (BG78 Bronze and BG57 Jasper) have just enough green to make them nicely complementary.

Oh, and this is my 52nd ghost of the year, getting me to my one-per-week annual goal a couple of months early.