🎨 Creative Learning

Three Prints from One Leaf

One leaf, painted once, and three white sheets. See which print shows the veins best, and what the veins really are.

1 2 3 The print shows the leaf's pipes: water in, sugar out.
Veins: the leaf's pipes
The paint
Underside of the leaf
1Underside up, on newspaper
2Paint a thin layer to the edges
3Paint side down, kitchen towel on top
4Press from the middle out, lift by the stalk
5Press twice more, no new paint
6Lay the prints side by side