Gum leaves picked up in the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. I sat down and drew the view of the city from the gardens last Saturday and picked up a few gum leaves to draw. I am working on a project where I want to have the gum leaf (or flower or bark) in colour/ detail in the foreground and then a view from the Gardens in the background. After many suggestions from the wonderful flickr and EDM community I have a few experiments to make with colour/ pencil etc. Here are two .
I love many colours of gum leaves . The colours seem to occur when the leaves have dropped onto the ground. Their bark can be spectacular too
gumleaf - watercolour pencil
background - HB pencil
gum leaf - watercolour pencil
background - Derwent Coloured pencil Blue Grey. Harder and tonal on left. Soft line on right
gumleaf - watercolour pencil 
