The unfolding tale of Silver and his adventures in the altered arts including altered books, altered text and mixed media stuff. http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/technique-leaves/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:06:08 -0600 All Rights Reserved http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/11/14/the-fallen-leaves-2-restoring-color.html http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/11/14/the-fallen-leaves-2-restoring-color.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) Art:Preparation Art:Process Technique-Leaves Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:55:00 -0600 After the leaves had been <a href="http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/11/13/the-fallen-leaves-i-sealing.html">sealed on both sides (as previously described)</a> and were thoroughly dry, I could start working on how to restore the natural color they had when I initially gathered them off the ground. I tried several different ideas, but let's cut to the chase here and go directly to what worked best: <b>chalk</b>. I use Carb-Othello, but any good brand of artist's chalk should work as well.&#8230; http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/11/13/the-fallen-leaves-i-sealing.html http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/11/13/the-fallen-leaves-i-sealing.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) Art:Preparation Art:Process Technique-Leaves Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:30:00 -0600 I had a couple opportunities this autumn to gather some very color-filled maple leaves, aiming to preserve them for future use in some paper arts project. So here are the details of what I did to them.<br /><br />The first group I gathered was about 30 which were mostly bright yellow. The second group was only 9; these were more red, with touches of yellow. For the most part, each group received&#8230;