Leaf Rubbings

I decided to make some leaf rubbings during one of my leaf raking flurries. I took out a clip board, scratch paper, a red crayon, a graphite pencil and a blue colored pencil.

When my daughter was young we had always used crayons. But we still had some left-over fat crayons from her first grade. The crayon I used was found in a junk drawer – probably from a restaurant. I peeled off the paper to enlarge the area of crayon available to make the rubbing. It was hard to hold the leave still pressing down on the paper from above while I was trying to also hold the clipboard and move the crayon! The small leaf in this first one is a tulip poplar…the larger one is a sycamore (a rather small leaf from that tree).

The second page was a small tulip polar leaf and two maple leaves.

I switched to the blue colored pencil. There is a partial tulip poplar leaf in the lower right corner. The others are maple leaves.

The last one I did was a larger tulip poplar leaf with the graphite pencil. I couldn’t resist using it as a string for a Zentangle!

And now I have another round of raking to do….