Oh, yeah - it's closing in on 'Peak' - as I write this!
Apparently, I haven't ever taken many foliage pix over the years...
I liked this one of the last of the Swee'Peas, with the little fall Maple leaf.
No foliage shots, BUT! >> My camera DID manage to snap this amazing photo
of the most recent eclipse of the 'Super' moon!*
First throw-downs:
And then...
And, with some minor revisions (different music, for one), this is what I went with.
However >>> As soon as I laid this down, it seemed very familiar.
???
I felt like I'd seen this composition - or something VERY similar - before.
I looked through my collection of (commercial) greeting cards
thinking that might've been where I'd seen it. But, No. So, I'm stumped.
The Fixins
I had to label each cup of leaves**
so that I knew how many of each I'd intended for each card. :)
I printed the vertical lines (harrowed rows of harvested corn??!)
from a piece of corrugated cardboard that I inked:
And I gathered all these delicate, ethereal leaf (not maples - probably Poplar) skeletons:
\
but ended up not including them.
Production Steps - The Movie!
The Steps
SIXTY-THREE this month!****
Panel of 21 of October's postcards:
Fin.
*When I worked up the final prototype for this month's cards, with it's rather large and golden moon (I often do moons or suns, but not usually as large), it was early September, and I was not yet aware of the Super Moon eclipse - it wasn't getting the hype it got later in the month! Maybe I'd heard about it and it was hovering in my subconscious mind? At any rate, my composition choice of this gold orb was entirely coincidental!
In honor of the occasion (and because I jump on any excuse to make dessert...), I made this Full Super-Moon (Sweet Potato) Pie:
From some of Mule's prize-winning honey. :)
First and Second place ribbons @ this year's Tunbridge Fair.
So nice to have a good honey year after several sparse ones.
**53 leaves per card = 1,113 leaves punched out!
***Leaves were punched using this wonderful little maple leaf paper punch:
Which I maimed - maybe @ leaf # 987??! - in the process (no wonder!) - it's still usable, so I didn't totally break it...
****Well - 63 for just this one documented card! For the other 20 cards, I semi-arranged all the leaves that fall on the black horizontal strip, and then glued the mass of them in one fell glue-ing! Which means there were only maybe 15 or 16 steps for the majority of the cards. :)
