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Completed artwork, Leaf art, Patchwork designs

  • sarah816202
  • Sep 17, 2025
  • 2 min read

This week we have bought the outdoors in, so you can enjoy!


The beauty of leaves, their intricacies, colours, and shapes in nature, when combined with our creatives who add their own twists and interpretations to them, has given a fantastic array of artwork for us this week. Have a first look and then take a second. Do you see anything different? There are layers to every piece.


Mainly white background with digital artwork various colours and a man wearing glasses in 7 different styles of colourful clothing
Completed Leaf art or Patchwork Patterns by Phil

Phil - a selection of patterns and colours. Phil used the Toon me app to create his artwork this week. He captures a lot of fun, colour and imagination with this. However, as a group, we know his wardrobe is just as colourful and fun too!


Mainly white background - Printed leaves in colours of dark green, copper, gold and silver
Completed Leaf art or Patchwork Patterns by Barbara

Barbara - enjoyed creating this, a first-time leaf printing and getting messy, as you can see, the results are fabulous! Her materials were collected from near Chorlton Meadows. She said 'had fun and found it relaxing', even though it was out of her comfort zone! She had to make sure her 4 legged feline friend was not in the area, so that was an added challenge too!

Barbara used some metallic and other acrylic paints for this to get the veins and outlines of the leaf impressions.


Mainly white background with a tree and leaf print marks making the leaves imprinted in gold, copper, sepia and dark red with a few blue spots and patches on a white background
Completed Leaf art or Patchwork Patterns by Sarah

Sarah - 'Leaves' - foraged and created a pattern, bringing them back to life once again, except as a tree. Sycamore and ash growing together. I took a step back and saw a gold heart in the middle of the leaf pattern. I am a lover of nature, perhaps the forest is calling me...

Created using inks for the background and Acrylic paints for the trunk, as well as leaf and stem printing.


Mainly white background - Left - Large leaf rubbing using gold and red; Right - Green and black shades, darker at the bottom, around a leaf in the centre
Completed Leaf art or Patchwork Patterns by Carolina artworks
Mainly white background - Left - long blue leaves imprinted centre with graphite shapes drawn around them from other leaves; Right - Black background - Real green leaves, woven together, the rounder one has green paint splashes on its edges
Completed Leaf art or Patchwork Patterns by Carolina artworks

Carolina - produced 4 pieces of artwork during our session. All very different. She employed various techniques and her knowledge to inspire each one with the leaves she had to hand. Beautiful use of colours as well.

In the first set of artwork, Carolina used soft pastels, placing leaves under her paper and rubbing over them to pick up the indentations. Then on the second, she used watercolours, adding plenty of water to disperse the pigment around the leaf on the paper. On the third, Carolina used watercolour to print her leaf and drew with graphite to gain the beautiful flowing shapes. The fourth shows the actual leaves she used, woven together.


A great deal of foraging and fun was had with this topic, as you can see. It sparked imaginations and led some of our creatives to experiment in new areas. This adventure opens up the way to mixing media for other art projects, perhaps, and adds to thinking about how to incorporate the outdoors into other areas of life.


I look forward to hearing how you enjoy the gallery this time. Please leave a comment. If you would like to come along to the next art session, the group runs on Wednesday 7:30pm, you are welcome to join, it's a really relaxing session. There's a different topic each week. See the link tree below, click on All4Art.


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