It was a dry but frosty day yesterday, I took the opportunity to go rummaging around the leaves to collect some of my favourite cyanotype materials.

This is a great time of year to collect leaves that have decayed but haven't turned to mush from the rain or snow. A particular favourite of mine is holly leaves.

Can you see those beautiful lace like veins?

Scanned holly leaves

I thought this would be a great opportunity to share with you a cyanotype that I had made during sunnier times! It is a cyanotype of holly leaves, the process captures the veins of the leaf left after the rest of the leaf has decayed.

I explain the process of making cyanotype prints in my post Catching the sun- creating my cyanotype prints

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