How to make a portrait from leaves. Fantasies from leaves

Here we are not talking about children's applications. We will do ADULT masterpieces – for interior decoration. Although there will be children's work here too, you'll see.

So, how to make paintings with your own hands from dry or succulent leaves, flowers and herbs.

Here are DIFFERENT ways... and DIFFERENT techniques for making crafts from leaves in the form of paintings.

And every craft-picture is possible even for a beginner to the master craftsman.

Hey, let's dive into the creative impulse.

Three-dimensional painting of DRY LEAVES AND ACORNs

(the essence of the work is with your own hands)

Let's start with a bright artistic “canvas” - an autumn composition of leaves and acorns...

The essence of the work- We take a sheet of plywood - and the leaves are glued overlapping each other... We leave the edges of the plywood sheet clean - we will stuff our frame there.

A picture made from dry leaves turns out to be three-dimensional, so we won’t place it under glass. And the frame comes separately without glass (just a frame made of wooden slats... and just a piece of plywood (or fiberboard) in the size of this frame.) And then we choose a method to your taste - with acrylic varnish, or with paraffin from candles. Even small children can participate in such a picture. This idea can be implemented in creativity circles.

Method with acrylic varnish. We buy acrylic varnish for crafts at the store. We pasted the leaves onto the canvases...applied a layer of varnish, let it dry...applied another layer...dried it again...and another layer...etc. until it shines the way you want.

Paraffin method. Melt the candles in a saucepan. They dipped each sheet and placed it on the canvas. They themselves will stick to each other with paraffin. A very quick and easy way to make a brilliant autumn leaf painting. Leaves sealed in paraffin may not lose their richness of shape and color for years.

You can lay out such pictures by arranging leaves in a chaotic manner. Or you can come up with a specific pattern. Harmony of smooth color transitions.

You can also try and make circular symmetrical patterns from leaves of different sizes and colors. They are called mandalas. Some other ancient peoples came up with such centric patterns, and it is believed that they have the magic of harmony and beauty. Mandalas are nice to look at. In our case, the magic of our mandalas will be made of a light and pure material: natural foliage - therefore such centric paintings will only heal and soothe, like nature itself.

Of course, painstaking work has been done here - it is necessary so that the size of the leaves were the same in each circle. And to each circular row differed from each other in the size and shape of its repeating element.

Such paintings can be made from leaves and dry herbs TO COLOR YOUR INTERIOR. So that the painting fits perfectly into the room.

In bright orange tones - for an orange-yellow interior.

Or for an interior in dark chocolate-muted tones... another composition of autumn leaves will do.

Well, now another great idea...

Paintings from FLOATING leaves.

Look at the photo below. Like? Me too)). Do you want to do it yourself - exactly like this? Then read on.

If you dry the leaves - without pinching them between the pages of a book - but simply put them in a flat box (for example, a candy box) and cover with semolina ... then this is what happens...

The cereal will press the leaf just enough to keep him from curling up when drying - and then the leaf will dry, retaining its smooth, elegant shape.

Such leaves can be mounted behind glass in a frame... and they will be beautiful and even inside the picture.

You say…“Yeah... but here in the photo you can see that the leaves are not clamped by the frame... but seem to be floating inside the frame. How to do it?

Very simple. We need a frame - with emptiness inside(search for sale or make it yourself...

In order to make such a deep air frame-box we need... take a regular frame with glass (slats and glazing)... a thin sheet of plywood (or fiberboard)... and four pieces of lumber (thick slats... the thicker the slatted beam, the larger the space will be inside the frame)…

And now, having collected everything we need, we create the design of such a frame-box...

We stuff bars onto a sheet of plywood - i.e. we create the sides... and on these sides we attach our upper covered frame on top. And in the end we get a frame with air inside - a frame-box.

How to make a sheet “float” inside a frame-box...

First, create the background– our plywood bottom of the frame...either PAINTED white...or COVERED with white paper.

We place the leaves in the center... and look at where this leaf has the most central place. Mark this place with a pencil at the bottom of the frame.

We will glue our leaf to this stump (foam or wood). And it turns out that he seemed to be hanging in the air and does not touch the wall of its frame.

And you can make it even cooler...

You can create the illusion of a leaf with a frame, lying on the sand...Here's how to do it...

Before we can glue our sheet to the “stump” SAND BACKGROUND at the bottom of the frame. To do this, take a glue gun... and apply uneven layer of glue on the bottom of the frame... somewhere thicker, somewhere less... And until the glue dries pour fine river sand on it. Let it dry and after drying, shake out the excess sand from the frame. We look, and if there are any unsanded places left... Lubricate these bald places with glue again and sprinkle with sand again.

If you don't have a glue gun (by the way, you can buy it at any hardware store for $7)... then you can use regular PVA glue - also apply a thicker layer and sand it with sand... but it will take longer to dry... and it’s better to take fine sand, PVA glue will not hold coarse gravel.

As a result, you will get beautiful paintings - as if the leaves are lying on the sand...

And also in such a framework and you can place not just CLEAR autumn leaves - but painted ones, with a picture drawn on them.

LEAVES-PICTURES

leaf painting technique.

You can lay out pictures with leaves, or you can draw pictures on the leaves themselves. Paint - oil or gouache.

If you work with gouache, then after completing the drawing you need to spray the picture with hairspray (to fix the paint and give it a richer brightness, as in the photo below).

Such original paintings on leaves can be given as gifts to family and friends; they can even be timed to coincide with the New Year.

And so that the painting, a gift from an autumn leaf, can be preserved for a long time - has not dried out, has not shrunk, has not curled up, it needs to be seal in paraffin(or wax). To do this, melt the candles in a bowl and dip the leaves into paraffin by the tail. We take it out and dry it, hanging it by the tail on threads.

And if you are not an artist, then you can draw simple graphic patterns - the usual symmetry of geometric repeating shapes.

Simple master class

according to the patterns on the leaves.

And you know what, I’ll probably make you fall in love with the idea of ​​paintings on autumn leaves. I'll give you instructions, along with whom he will come understanding, and interest, desire and love will come along with the company.

Let's start with the simplest crafts - paintings on leaves. For example, such silhouette drawings... They have only a BACKGROUND and only a DARK SILHOUETTE. The background is simple. And the silhouette is simple. That’s why we’ll start with such simple artistic tasks so as not to scare you away, but to lure you.

We find a beautiful picture on the Internet. For example, this one. We print it out at a photo printing kiosk (I don’t think you have a color printer at home).

On a blank sheet of paper trace a maple leaf with a pencil, cut out the outlined silhouette - we get a stencil with a hole in the shape of a maple leaf. And with this maple hole we apply a paper stencil to our picture in the place we like. For example like this.

And now you can redraw the picture from this paper sample onto a maple leaf. First the background is the sky and water, then the black silhouette of a dolphin. You can also make a holey stencil out of paper for the dolphin - put it on the background and paint it with black paint.

Using this principle you can do any episodes from any pictures. At least from Mono Lisa. Elements with eyes look impressive - the predatory gaze of a bird, or the mysterious gaze of a woman.

BIT DRAWINGS look very nice, drawn with a cotton swab. Here, too, we first make the background. Let's dry it. And then we draw a drawing with dots. The easiest one to start with. For example, the silhouette of the Eiffel Tower.

Pictures on leaves with a SMOOTH COLOR TRANSITION look very interesting. Gradient play of paint shades (as in the picture below). Here's how to create such a delicate background for your painting at home...

To make a background on a leaf with a SMOOTH OVERFLOW effect From one shade to another you need to use not a brush, but a foam sponge with small pores.

• Apply wide stripes of paint to the sponge - yellow, yellow-orange mixed, orange.
• We print the sponge onto the sheet.
• The first print will be faded, so we reapply stripes of ink and repeat this process several times until the background is the desired saturation.

Then, with a thin brush, we apply black contours of the silhouette (for example, a bird), and paint over the contours. You can cut out the silhouette of a bird from paper and trace it. Or cut out a stencil of a bird's hole - put it on a sheet and paint it over.

You can draw any thing on maple leaves, the simplest and the most complex. Citrus slices or an illustration from the fairy tale The Little Prince.

Paintings PRINTS

from painted leaves.

Children often make prints of autumn leaves during classes at school or kindergarten. Chalk or paints.

In the chalk print technique, we place white paper on top of an autumn leaf - and shade it all with chalk - from the shading, all the roughness of the leaf appears on the paper.

And in the technique with paint - we apply paint to an autumn leaf with a sponge (better than just a brush) and, before it dries, quickly press the leaf with the painted side to the paper.

And it turns out very interesting when we do not make an orange sheet on white paper, but vice versa, first we paint the paper orange with gouache, and then we cover the sheet with white paint and create a white imprint of the sheet on an orange background. It turns out much more interesting and richer in color. Do you agree?

Such leaf prints can be collaged into an interesting picture.

Like in the photo below - the picture was initially divided into zones... for each zone a different background of splashes was chosen (I will tell you how to make a background of splashes in the same article below)...

And then a separate stamp sheet is applied to each zone. The result is an original work of art

And you can make it even more beautiful... if you apply the imprint of an autumn leaf not on a clean white sheet, but on a prepared one. We apply typos of colored soap bubbles to the sheet in advance.... and then when the prints are dry... apply leaf prints to this bubble background. It’s quite simple - pour ordinary soap solution into jars, add colored gouache - and use a cocktail straw to inflate a bubble and, when it is already large, tilt it towards the paper so that it bursts on it.

And it will feel AS IF these leaves float in puddles when it rains... have you ever seen how rain raises bubbles in puddles and leaves float in this bubbly puddle... Like this a picture of leaves and splashes of rain... will become a real decoration of your room...

Leaf paintings

backprints.

“Reverse prints” is the name I came up with for a technique that produces this is the result- stencil technology. (photo below).

The stencil technique is simple - very simple. Look...

1. Take a white sheet of paper... put a leaf, a stem of grass, or a twig on it.
2. We put this sheet inside a large box (the bigger the better) now you’ll understand why...
3. We take a can of colored paint in our hand and spray it on top of the paper with the leaf/stem/flower lying on it. (Since all our work is carried out inside the box, splashes do not scatter around the room and do not stain the furniture).

As a result, the entire sheet is painted in a rich color... and the place where the twig was remains painted over.

And as the spray flies out of the can at different angles– we do not have clear contours of the plant... but a sort of blurred shadow of the leaf... which only adds artistic expressiveness to our picture of leaves.

Or you can use a simpler spray bottle, made from a toothbrush.

Use regular watercolor or gouache, and use a regular toothbrush as a spray.

Paintings stamps - from succulent leaves.

Or you can leave it on paper sheet imprint- at all in a clumsy way. Or rather, “hammer”

We take paper - put a leaf (juicy green, yellow, red) - cover it with a paper napkin - and on top of the napkin we knock and hit the leaf with a hammer. As a result, the juice and pigment from the sheet are reprinted onto paper.

You can print each sheet separately... placing leaf after leaf... gradually coming up with the plot of the composition.

Or you can immediately unfold it all cover the leaf and flower arrangement - in our future picture - with a napkin and thresh selflessly - until the plants are completely torn to pieces.

So that their bright souls remain captured forever - on your imperishable canvas.

FLAT picture

from dry herbs, leaves and flowers.

And of course – a standard version of the painting made from natural materials. When herbs, leaves and flowers dry out in flat between the pages of books. And in such a pressed form they are laid out on paintings.

You will find even more such FLAT flower paintings in my article .

THE BEST WAY TO DRY LEAVES AND HERBS

(so as not to spoil the books).

We wrap the sheet on both sides with a paper napkin, then with thick paper, then with a cotton diaper and iron it.

The iron should not be very hot (otherwise the sheet will turn black). We ironed it a little, and it warmed up a little, as if in the summer sun. Left some moisture in the napkin. Then we changed the napkin to a dry one and repeated.

And after that you can also put it in a paper napkin between heavy books.

Marker paintings with leaves

(simple graphics).

You can simply draw any picture with a black marker - and the leaves will only play the role of individual elements included in your graphics.

Leaf paintings

In mosaic technique.

Mosaic technique is the most beautiful, in my opinion. Very soft, airy, real lace made from natural materials. And it’s so nice to lay out piece by piece - gently, precisely, achieving the right similarity.

First, put everything on dry paper - then photograph the final version. Remove everything from the sheet - carefully placing each element in a box. And then, with glue in hand, lay out the mosaic picture, checking the photo sample.

As a basis, you need to take a sheet of paper with the silhouette of the animal transferred to it. Place a piece of paper on the computer screen with a picture and draw the outline of the animal with a faint pencil line. And then slowly fill all this space with pieces of leaves.

Deer and owl are quite complex jobs. Your very first job should be simple so as not to discourage you. The simplest thing is a symmetrical animal. Same left and right. So you will simply start from the center - and at the same time lay out identical pieces of plants to the right and left of it.

As a material, you can use dry leaves, or leaves sealed in paraffin (dipped in melted candle wax).

Leaf paintings

In multilayer technique.

Or you can make an applique of leaves - using a three-dimensional technique - when the texture of the leaf conveys the texture of the animal... like here in the picture of leaves with owls - when the texture and shape of the leaves conveys the texture and shape of the feathers.

And you can also sell your work - so I found a very interesting site where the author sells - not the crafts themselves - but postcards depicting these works. And not cheap - but at a good price. A great example of a beautiful hobby and business in one. https://www.floraforager.com/

Paintings from leaves with birds

Master Class

(based on children's coloring books).

You can create a picture that you paint with leaves - like an artist with brush strokes. Each leaf is a broad stroke of an artist's brush. For such a picture, you need to print out an ordinary children's coloring book with a bird on a printer - in large size.

And then decorate this picture, but not with pencils, but with leaves. Lay out each element of the decoration with leaves of a certain color. And you will receive an exclusive painting of leaves.

There are a lot of coloring pages with birds on Google - print them out and try using dry autumn leaves to turn this ordinary children's coloring book into a real masterpiece. You can be proud of your work.

You can make spring paintings from leaves by drying whole branches of cherry blossoms. Flowers are pressed between paper napkins. If you want the flowers to be voluminous, then you can sprinkle them with dry semolina, or sifted with very dry river sand.

These are quite simple applications from leaves - for 1st grade of school... For such simple applications I will write a separate article... and then there will be a link to it here.

You will find even more options for applications from autumn leaves in my article

Landscape paintings - from dry leaves and flowers.

Here are the paintings he makes from leaves, flower petals and herbs one French artist... Below you will see her contacts... if you like such works... you can contact the author to order a similar masterpiece for yourself.

It's a shame that you can't enlarge them to see everything in great detail.

You can also make small landscape works from leaves. Which do not require so much effort and such expenditure of natural material.

Paintings PORTRAITS - from dry leaves.

And here are the compositions of autumn leaves that are folded in the outline of a woman's head.

You can make a whole gallery of paintings from leaves in the theme “Very Woman”. And display it in your living room for all the guests to gasp.

Leaf painting

LOVERS.

And we will end our article with love. It all starts with her. Let everything continue with her.

Two lovers. A picture that is pleasing to the eye in any era and in any civilization.

As you can see, there are a lot of ideas...

Create. Don't be lazy to be happy. Life is given - not for plans for the future.

And I will definitely look new ideas for you...

I found it right now...

Yes, yes, and it’s all made from leaves - take a closer look... Read more at the link above.

AND MORE...

I have other articles on autumn bouquets and crafts made from natural autumn materials...

Handicraft master class "Landscape of autumn leaves"

I'm trying to reach timid souls
Tell your students:
In the hands of skilled people, maybe even
Dry branch bloom.
I teach you to take Nature as a co-author,
After all, we all originate from it.
Art that serves the people
She rocked it in her hands.

To work in floristry techniques, you need to dry leaves, flowers, inflorescences, and herbs. To do this, use a stack of old newspapers. The material to be dried is laid out between layers of newspapers and placed under a press. To ensure that parts of the plants do not lose their color, after 3-4 days they need to be transferred between layers of new newspapers.
For landscape work we will need:
- dried leaves of corn, birch, willow and other trees, twigs of wormwood, a large poplar leaf, woody lichen;
- a sheet of blue matte cardboard (it doesn’t stick well to glossy material),
- a sheet of tracing paper,
- scissors, PVA glue,
- a clean cloth.

Beautiful hand-made paintings of dried leaves and flowers are perfect for decorating classrooms in schools and kindergartens on the theme of Autumn. Therefore, for the youngest artists, we have selected the best photos with examples and master classes on making such children's crafts. Simple instructions are suitable for both grades 1-3 of school, and for children from 3 years old, as well as middle and senior kindergarten groups. Be sure to make thematic paintings and panels from dried flowers and leaves with your own hands or the hands of your children.

Cool paintings of leaves and flowers by children - a selection of photos with examples

You can find good ideas for making paintings from dried flowers and leaves among our photo examples. We have selected the best options for combining dry natural materials and creating from them full-fledged images, drawings with a plot. Both senior kindergarten students and schoolchildren can repeat such pictures.

A selection of photo paintings made from dried leaves and flowers, made by yourself

In our photo examples, children will find many cool images of dried flowers and leaves. Hand-made paintings in the form of animals and birds, natural landscapes are perfect for decorating classrooms in schools and kindergartens.

Beautiful paintings from leaves with your own hands on the theme "Autumn" for children - master classes

In autumn, changes in the natural world are especially noticeable, because during this period insects hide, and some animals hibernate. Therefore, for a school competition or an exhibition in a kindergarten, children can make a picture with their own hands from leaves on the theme of autumn with one of the animals or insects. With the help of our next master class, the children will learn how to make cute ladybugs and butterflies.

Materials for making a beautiful autumn leaf painting with your own hands

• A4 sheet of paper;
• dry leaves of different sizes and colors;
• dried flower petals;
• PVA glue;
• wax crayons and pencils;
• brush;
• scissors.

Master class with photos of children making beautiful pictures from dry leaves on the theme “Autumn”

Video tutorial for children on making their own autumn pictures from dried leaves

Another interesting picture can be made in the following master class. A simple video will tell children from kindergarten and school how to correctly depict a beautiful hedgehog using natural dried materials.

Bright paintings of leaves and flowers for kindergarten - master classes for senior and middle groups

Kindergarten kids will definitely love the beautiful picture in the form of a postcard made of leaves and flowers, made according to our next master class. A simple craft can be used as a gift.

Materials for making paintings from flowers and leaves with your own hands in the senior group of kindergarten

• dried flowers with long stems;
• thick cardboard (ideally a small canvas on a stretcher);
• brush;
• pencil;
• acrylic paint;
• sponge;
• glue for decoupage.

Master class with photos of creating a picture of flowers and leaves in the senior group of kindergarten

Video tutorial on making your own paintings from leaves and flowers for the middle group of kindergarten

Students in the middle or senior kindergarten group can create another cool picture with their own hands from dried flowers and leaves using the following video lesson. With its help, children will learn to create beautiful animals and birds.

Simple DIY leaf paintings for 3-year-old children - step-by-step master classes

From ordinary leaves, 3-year-old children can create with their own hands pictures not only of insects, but also of birds. Our master class will tell them how to make a cool turkey from natural materials.

Materials for making a simple painting by children 3 years old with their own hands from leaves

• multi-colored leaves of the same size (you can even not completely dry them);
• brown cardboard;
• self-adhesive eyes for toys;
• pencil;
• a piece of white cardboard;
• yellow paper;
• scissors.

Master class with photos of making your own paintings from dry leaves for children 3 years old

With my own hands. The technology is simple, and the result can be very effective. This decor is suitable simply as an interior decoration. Making is easy to turn into a creative activity with children.

Panel made from natural material

It is very possible to create by gluing dried leaves and flowers, individual petals onto a base, for example, made of cardboard. This technique has its own name - oshibana (or oshibana). Quite often acts as a hobby for adults. Oshibana is the ancient Japanese art of painting with dried leaves and flowers.

This option is also suitable for children's creativity. In the process of completing crafts and preparing materials, the child will learn new information about the world around him and learn to compare colors and shapes. He will develop fine motor skills and perseverance. It is very good to combine leaves and flowers with twigs, seeds, and grains. This way you can get a relief surface and even three-dimensional details.

DIY panel of autumn leaves

So, what does it take to build such beauty? A panel of autumn leaves (photo below) can be made only from flat elements, using both natural forms of objects and complex configurations of artificial origin created on a paper backing.

You can choose the following stories:

• bouquets;
• landscapes;
• still lifes;
• portrait or complex thematic ideas.

In a word, this technique is very interesting and unusual. The result depends on your imagination, perseverance and the preparations you have.

Materials and tools

To make a panel of autumn leaves with your own hands, you will need the following:

• base (cardboard, fiberboard, paper, for example, colored);
• dried leaves, flower petals;
• glue;
• brush for applying glue (optional);
• glass and frame for decorating the work.

So, nothing special is required. The main thing is patience and the desire to do something special.

Leaf preparation technology

To make a beautiful panel from natural material, it is important to properly prepare the source materials. You will need:

• freshly picked leaves, flowers, petals;
• unnecessary thick books;
• cardboard;
• cotton wool;
• scissors;
• threads or large rubber bands (not erasers, but those used for banknotes);
• a flat surface that is free for several days (table, shelf).

Drying the material is a slow process, but you definitely shouldn’t rush to get high-quality workpieces for work.

The sequence of drying leaves is as follows:

1. Place the leaves evenly and neatly between the pages of the unwanted book (the paper may get dirty). Do not lay out the leaves one after another, it is better to do this over several pages (they will dry faster and better and will not stick together).
2. Place a book under a press (a box, drawer, or several large books).
3. Wait a few days.
4. Check if the workpieces are dry. If you are satisfied with the quality, take out the leaves and get to work. If the material is not dry, leave it for another couple of days.

How to dry flowers

Flower petals or small (not thick) flowers are dried in the same way as leaves. So, you can prepare flowers of daffodils, phlox, bindweed, viola (pansies), and bells. But asters, roses and other flowers, which have a dense, fleshy base, are best dried as follows:

1. Prepare a sheet of cardboard or thick paper slightly larger than the flower itself.
2. Fold the blank in half like a postcard.
3. Cut a hole of any shape in the center of each side (this is a kind of ventilation so that the flower does not rot).
4. Unfold the cardboard and put a layer of cotton wool inside.
5. Place the flower on the cotton wool.
6. Add another layer of cotton wool on top.
7. Cover with cardboard (fold the flaps).
8. Secure the “card” with rubber bands or tie with thread.
9. It is advisable to put it under a press.
10. Check the result after a few days. If the cotton wool is very wet and the flower is not dry, change the cotton wool and dry it completely.

As you can see, the technology for harvesting leaves and flowers is simple, but if you don’t follow it, you won’t get high-quality material. Leaves that are not dried enough may become deformed, and flowers may lose their petals.

Panel technology

To make a beautiful panel of leaves (photo above), you need to work like this:

1. Use a cardboard base or colored paper if part of the background remains uncovered by the dried material.
2. To make objects of complex unnatural shapes (vases, houses), cut out substrates (blank parts) from thin paper.
3. Apply glue to one side of the paper backing and place dry leaves on top.
4. Wait for the element to dry and trim along the edge contour. Throw away small leaf scraps and use large ones for other parts.
5. When all the components are ready, apply glue to the base and glue the blanks. If necessary, lay out a background of leaves or petals first.
6. After the painting has dried, frame it under glass. This way the panel will be better preserved.

Panels of dry leaves can be made in the form of relief using twigs, spikelets, cones, grains and seeds. This option is perfect for children's creativity.

So, making a panel of autumn leaves with your own hands is not difficult. This creative activity can be a fun and rewarding way to spend time with your child. Prepare quality material and explain the technology. Even small children can make a simple composition of leaves and flowers.

Leaf paintings, created using the oshibana technique, can easily be considered works of art, but children’s first acquaintance with this type of creativity occurs in kindergarten, when they make their first applications with dry autumn leaves. To create such paintings, not only leaves are used, but also other natural materials, for example, flower petals, grass, tree bark, poplar fluff and various seeds. Before performing such work, all materials must be prepared: they are dried under a press, sometimes pre-treated with a special solution. If you want to become a true oshibana master, then when drying materials you should try to preserve their natural color.

Painting "Autumn" from leaves It is performed on paper or fabric, and the elements can be glued with glue, and several other methods of fixation are also used. Sometimes the paper is pre-painted with watercolors, a drawing is created, which is then supplemented with natural elements. A true craftsman arranges the elements with care and precision so that they take their place: leaves transform into trees, and flower petals outline the silhouettes of mountains.

This type of decorative art became especially widespread in Japan, where it appeared about 600 years ago. In the last 30 years, osibana has found a second life and began to spread throughout the world; many needlewomen resort to this type of creativity who want to learn new techniques for working with natural materials and show children how incredibly beautiful they can be.

Leaf paintings

Autumn gives us a wide variety of colors: pink, yellow, red, brown shades surround us everywhere, and this will definitely make needlewomen think about creativity, to which children must be involved. Osibana refers to floristry, because it is a unique way to create beautiful bouquets from leaves and flowers, but these bouquets will be flat and attached to a paper base.

Beginning craftsmen often make the mistake of trying to use only bright colors, but it is the inconspicuous leaves that, at first glance, can play the most important role in your composition.

You can use darkened leaves of hazel or aspen, they are gray-brown, however, if your composition contains rocks and stones, dark reflections, then these elements will be the best solution.

If you are chasing bright colors, then pay attention to the leaves of willow, apricot and mulberry; they should be harvested in September-October, patiently collecting the smoothest and most beautiful ones. Red color can be conveyed using viburnum and grapes. American maple and tulipwood also have gorgeous hues. Pay attention not only to the front side, but also to the back side, as in Norway maple these shades vary from pinkish to dark purple. Silver poplar allows you to convey white, gray and yellowish colors.

When you have collected the necessary material for paintings of leaves and flowers, they need to be dried, for this you can use the simplest way - place them between the pages of a book. They can also be dried under a press in another way: place them between newspaper pages, stack them on top of each other, and place some weight on top. If you dry elements between newspaper pages, then you need to change them from time to time.

You can also collect dry leaves that have already fallen and just iron them so that they are ready to create a craft.

You can build a drying press with your own hands; for this you will need two square shapes cut from thick plywood. You need to drill four holes in the corners and insert bolts. When you place the newspaper pages between the plywood, the bolts must be tightened, and your petals will dry in this pressed state. You also need to drill several thin holes around the perimeter of the plywood square for ventilation.

For creating paintings of autumn leaves don’t be afraid to experiment, dry various petals and leaves, even if you may not initially like their color, in the future it may fit perfectly into the composition being created.

Paintings from autumn leaves

Painting of leaves on the theme of autumn begins to be created the moment you go to collect material in a park or garden. When you get your hands on a new element, you can already imagine where you can use it. By the way, you must remember that materials are prepared not only in the autumn months, but also in spring and summer. In the spring you can collect young shoots of trees, flower petals - bird cherry, violets, lilies of the valley, viburnum, hawthorn. Summer is rich in herbs and flowers, which also boast their original shapes and shades. Even in winter you can collect materials, because they all now take on a dark, gloomy color.

It is better to do it on thick cardboard, on which you first draw a sketch with a simple pencil. Then you need to prepare the elements and begin the creative process. You can fix the elements on a cardboard base using PVA glue.

Since an error is not at all a simple application that can be made during a lesson in kindergarten or a lesson at school, then there is no time for such paintings from dry leaves it takes much more: depending on the complexity of the invented composition, from several days to months. It is also necessary to remember that you must predict in advance what kind of result you will get, because error is a constant creative search, and in the process of executing the composition you must continue to fantasize and experiment.

You can create a unique artistic effect thanks to natural plant shapes and textures, and there is no need to resort to additional decoration or use of other materials.

The finished painting must be properly designed, a mat and a frame must be selected. The baguette must be matched to the picture, sometimes even forgetting that it harmonizes with the interior. The baguette should complement it and not obscure it.

A passe-partout must be used to protect the painting from damage that glass can cause. The air gap allows protection from high humidity, condensation and other adverse conditions.

Compositions using pressed floristry must be under glass, otherwise dirt and dust will constantly settle on them, and the colors will fade from the influence of sunlight.

The ideal solution would be anti-reflective glass, which diffuses reflections of light, thus preserving the naturalness of the image. Anti-reflective glass also allows for high-quality color reproduction.

Considering leaf paintings photos, you can notice that they are very colorful, despite the fact that all its colors were created by nature itself, which is why such compositions fit perfectly into any interior, creating an atmosphere of warmth and comfort.

Painting "Autumn" from leaves

DIY leaf painting- a wonderful children's craft that children first become acquainted with in kindergarten. Applications can be performed in various techniques: some are accessible to the youngest, children are introduced to them in the junior and middle groups of kindergarten, while others can only be performed by primary schoolchildren. Each such application is unique and unique, and by preserving it, you will leave a long-lasting memory of your child’s first creative successes.

Children love the overlay applique, where dry leaves are placed on top of each other. In this craft, scissors are not used, and the missing elements are drawn with a marker, paints or felt-tip pen, sometimes elements from plasticine are added.

In silhouette appliqué, certain elements are cut out from leaves and then glued onto a cardboard surface to form a design. The type of model applique comes down to selecting leaves that are similar in color and shape, and then laying out an invented picture from them, and if you select the same leaves, then they will create an original symmetrical picture, for example, you can lay out a butterfly in this way.

DIY leaf painting

Admire on the Internet DIY leaf paintings photo, you can notice that even the simplest applications made by children will become a wonderful decoration for your interior.

We can make such paintings using leaves of any color and paint, designs can be made on paper or on fabric, even special prints can be made on cotton fabric, which is then used for sewing clothes or home textiles. If you will be painting on fabric, then you need appropriate paint that will not rub off or smear after washing.

The leaves must be large, openwork with pronounced veins, so that their texture is reflected on the paper or fabric surface. Even children can do it; they will be interested in coloring the leaves with paint and then applying them to paper. You can work on fabric with oil paints, and on paper with gouache.

Paintings from leaves: photos

DIY painting “Autumn” made from leaves in the form of stamps on paper, it is done like this: first, we place the sheet of paper face up (the side where the veins stand out) and carefully coat it with paint. You can also use a sponge to apply paint.

Perhaps the first time you smear the sheet too much, its imprint will be too “fat” and its texture will be blurred. Over time, you will find the perfect amount of ink that will allow you to get a crisp print. Also, be sure to choose coarse, dense leaves, for example, chestnut or grape are ideal, you can use oak, and if you take a shoot that is too young and soft, it will crumple during painting. To hold the element while painting, you can use a wooden stick or pencil. Then turn it over and press the painted side to the paper, cover it with newspaper on top and press it, thanks to this all the veins will be imprinted. You can use a rolling pin and roll it over the top.

In addition to paintings, you can also make bouquets that will delight you with their bright colors.