FEELING LIKE AUTUMN

LEAF STITCHING

INTERMEDIATE 3-D ART

dried or fresh leaves, needle and perle cottons

Gee no!

Not here in the So.Cal.

99 degrees today if you can believe that?

Crazy weather.

So let me show off a little something to cool things down a bit,

these sweet leaf constructions that senior Helen Park created last school year.

Inspired by the work of Susanna Bauer,

Helen picked a few dried leaves I'd collected for her over the last year and went to town.

Funny, 

she made the most difficult one first

 after she saw the little box my son bought me for Xmas from U.K. mixed media artist

Alice Fox. 

She enjoyed the tedious process so much that she made several more.

The grouping above was bought by English teacher Donna Hall to be displayed in her classroom,

a great honor.

One of these days I need to photograph Donna's classroom.

Every year she spends a couple hundred dollars at Open House and fills her walls with student art.

The effect is incredible!

I would say she has close to 250 pieces carefully arranged.

I had Helen frame out her leaves in small box top lids for Open House display.

So delicate and lovely!

I admire your workmanship and stick-to-activeness Helen.

This was a very difficult assignment.