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*S0* many leaves. Beast and I spent quite a lot of yesterday morning collecting them and piling them under the beech tree. He used the lawnmower, which cut green swathes through the orange carpet. I used rake, barrow and leaf-gathering hand spades, which got through a lot more leaves, though it also left more leaves behind and did not mince them. Still, between us we made a considerable impact.

My forearms ache.

It's interesting how the different trees have shed. Sweet chestnuts are completely bare. The sycamores have golden carpets beneath them and a fair covering of yellow. The beech shed a solid orange around its spread, and the lawn further away was/is about equally copper and green. Fruit trees are bare, walnut is mostly bare, laburnum to my surprise still carries dull green leaves, plus seed pods. Meanwhile the holly at the front is generously berried.

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I recently won an auction for a voucher for an acrylic pour, and after some discussions with the artist, decided to buy an additional two canvasses so as to have a group.

Look here and you will see what I got!

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I hope your arms recover from the leaves!

I like your artwork - looks really great together

I'm really pleased with it. It was an interesting process - she sent me video of working on the pours, and I had a choice of six to pick from.

Lovely art! Those colors look perfect for you.

I wish you strength in subduing the leaves!

They go beautifully with the rest of the pictures in here, which are all in the same colour range. I have my preferences!

Love the art! They make a good group, and it looks like a great fit for your house.

I kind of want to try acrylic pour, but it's probably not something I should just try on my lliving room table. Things could get messy! :D

Apparently the best way to do this (and I keep meaning to have a go, but...) is to get a box, big enough to take your canvases/boards with room to spare. Line it with tinfoil or clingfilm. Then you stand the canvas on some upturned plastic cups, or little wooden blocks, and when you pour, the drippings to into the box.

You need a leaf blower, hours of fun while annoying your neighbours.

Your art is so pretty. The group works beautifully together.

We actually have a leaf blower, but everything was so wet and deeply piled... but I think Beast will be plying the blower on the drive. Raking leaves off gravel does not seem like an enterprise likely to succeed.

I've rotated one of them a bit - will probably continue to play for a while!

Autumn leaves are lovely to look at but they do make for A LOT of work. I hope your forearms have stopped aching by now.d

I'd never heard of acrylic pour before. It looks fun! Playing around with colours are so satisfying.

beautiful art, what a lovely thing!

I've been so much more aware of the trees this year - my Saturday social distancing takes place under the same two trees every week, at the end of a stand of trees that used to belong to a fsncy house and are therefore all different and they've been so disparate in how quickly they've turned and fallen. I definitely do not envy you the dealing with the carpet - so pretty until it's a soggy mess, then just so heavy!