Sometimes we forget about the beauty leaves have. With the fall season, we get a special selection of leaves. Oaks and maples have lots of color. But even houseplants offer lots of variety as with the calathea (prayer plant). The leaves of house plants come in many colors, with various shapes and verigations to provide interest.
Hopefully this will encourage you to stop and smell the leaves.
Left to right
Oak, aspidistera, Calathea, eucalyptus, liquid amber maple and lambs ear.
Version 1. Doing a grouping of mass. Mass of brown oak on the bottom layer, a mass of whatever the green leaves are, topped off with liquid amber maple. One taller stem of Liquid Amber Maple for drama.
Version 2 – with flowers.
Someway in the downward crescent composition style. Symmetry in that both the left and right sides have leaves draping down . There is a slight bit of movement going from the left to the right.
Standard facing design. Tall maple, and aspidistera in the back, med green and lambs ear (which is almost acting like a focal flower in this piece) and low eucalyptus.
A more modern take. Less materials. A very minimal oak stem angled over a sea of lambs ear with some maple seed pods and leaves strewn in.
Version 1 – the light feathery thigy is in position 1. This is a modern design in that the leaves have been highly manipulated. Lots of movement.
Version 2. Placement of airy stem moved.
The artist making this composition had a desired outcome. They wanted a tree (the maple and eucalpytus being a willow tree), a pond the lambs ear. So it is supposed to feel a bit like a zen garden.