In the Fall - Abstraction

Painted completely within Inkscape - September 2025

I just completed a work on a Japanese Maple Acer Ariadne in the fall.

I remembered as kids we all gathered up leaves and made a collage.

I gathered the leaves from my art, cut and splice them, and assemble them into an abstract.

Normally one leaf contains many sections of similar colors.

In the abstraction, I cut the leaves into parts and then reassembled them - giving the colors a rhythm.

The connecting lines have a flow and rhythm as well - almost like a Jazz piece.

Many artists like to employ lots of lines.

My design is to provide spacing so the lines can swing on their own..

I employed lots of texture in the background.

There is also a thin overlay layer which adds more texture to the leaves and lines.

This is printed on Red River Paper’s Palo Duro 315, made from cotton fibers, meeting archival standards.

The paper’s surface and thickness allows for rich colors.

One print was made at 24” wide x 36” tall.