First Fall Colors

The first of the fall colors has been creeping in. We took a walk around looking for some of the first bright leaves to fall.

These first maple leaves still have some of their green color left as central veins making a nice bold pattern.

Just a few patches of orange and red are showing high up in the red maples.

Finally I found a solid red one, probably from a different species of maple.

Back to the larger bold patterned maple leaves. I'll probably try and save these bold patterned ones by pressing them after soaking them in glycerine.

The glycerine helps preserve the color, if you just press them in a book they will often turn brown after a while.

I tend to soak them for about half a day in a water glycerine solution before drying them and pressing them in old books for about a month. After that they are nice and flat and ready to glue down for art projects.

Even a few of the poplar leaves are starting to turn. I managed to catch my wife taking pictures on her phone, gotta love picture within a picture.

Finally the sun started setting and quite a bit of the same red from the leaves ended up in the clouds.

The last bits of light almost look like oil paint streaks on a canvas. This one would probably be pretty easy to whip up as a painting, just underpaint with a blueish gray and highlight with some red and white mixtures.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)