Because my terracotta leaves didn’t look as natural as I had hoped, I decided that making leaves with a more delicate and thin material that ranges in colour could be a good way to go in terms of development.
Here I decided to draw straight onto an old dried up leaf that felt like paper which had once been wet and dried up. Doing this little experiment was actually quite rewarding I would say, because I have used a fine point liner to outline the leaf and its prominent shaped areas, its given the leaf a comic like style which is interesting to see on a natural piece of material.
When I stuck them to the wall in an arrangement, it made me think about what it could be like to have a full wall of these leaf forms gathered together to create some kind of canapy.
Doing this has definitely opened up many more ideas and creative development options for this project.
Courtney Blair Art 