Creating and giving away leaves

After a morning of community work with our local Neighbourhood Centre I managed to get down to the 'studio' for a few hours this afternoon. Given my commitment to selecting a 'leaf commenter' to send the 200th blog leaves to I decided to make a start on a piece I had planned for sometime - a skeletised leaf. I love how nature can take away the leaf matter and just leave the delicate framework of the leaf behind - I want to try to create this on a larger scale in iron.



As you can see from the photo above I did not get to finish the leaf but by sundown I had made a good start. The leaf is about 1.5m long and about 400mm wide.

I am making the leaf from some 12mm iron rod (part of a wrought iron gate) Jo (a neighbour) gave me and a bale of rusted barbed wire from Noela. I must say it was all a little bit hard on the fingers - twisting high tensile barbed wire around the iron took time and a lot of sharp and rusted barb avoidance.

On the giveaway front the names of those who made comments and contributed some great quotes on leaves - which I will use in the future - were placed in our Tibetan singing bowl and a name was drawn out by Fiona; and the name was artpropelled - so the beaten brass leaves will wing their way to KwaZulu Natal. Thanks to all who contributed; and thanks for celebrating my milestone.