Daily Leaf
The Daily Leaf
This year, I have started a large personal project called the Daily Leaf. Each day in 2018, I am collecting a leaf outdoors and illustrating it. For project details and rules, see the introductory post about The Daily Leaf
Interactive Map
The interactive map below shows where I collected all of my leaves. Click on the markers to see the illustration created from a leaf collected at each location. I have also included which media I used for each illustration.
Project Rules
- Each day I will pick up a leaf.
- I will collect my leaves outdoors (no houseplants)
- I will collect and photograph one leaf each day. If I’m really sick or really grumpy I may fall behind on illustrations. However, each day I need to collect and photograph a leaf.
- At the end of 2018, I will have 365 illustrations. Like in previous month-long challenges, I won’t beat myself up over falling behind. However, I will catch up.
- My leaves may be collected directly from plants, or from the ground.
- Leaves may be in any condition. Chewed up partial leaves, leaf skeletons and soggy decomposed leaves are leaves. However, compound leaves with multiple leaflets count as one leaf
- I will attempt to identify the species of each leaf.
- I will illustrate each leaf on watercolour paper. There are no restrictions on using different painting/drawing media and illustration techniques throughout the year.
- Illustrations may be different sizes. I may choose to create larger compositions with multiple leaves spanning several days.
- Each day, I will post my progress on social media with the hashtag #dailyleaf.