12.13.2010

Amazing Natural Leaf Carving Art

It's hard not to love the brilliant display of colorful foliage that signals the entrance of autumn each year, but no one will remember those leaves when they fall off. Leaf carving art will lengthen the the  life of fell leaf and make the leaf show the amazing beauty of its veins, profile and structure in another way.

Natural leaf carving art is actually a kind of handicraft cutting and removal of the leaf's mesophyll to produce an artwork on a leaf without cutting or removing any veins. They are all by hand, no paintings and printings included.


Don't they amazing? They are just so beautiful. They can carve anything on leaf. 

The leaves of the Chinar which is native to India, Pakistan and China are the most suitable to be carved.These leaves have a close resemblance to maple leaves with beautiful, uniformly distributed and meshy veins. 

The leaves are treated with more than 60 working procedures before they can be used to make leaf carving artwork.The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to talk with the leaf. Carved from an actual leaf which has been dried and cured, leaf carvings come in various subject matter. As for contents, the various subjects are presented in accordance with the vein direction. And the veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.

The image carved in the leaf always implies some deep and unique meaning which gives a new soul to the leaf. The leaf carving art is good at expressing the deep meaning trough the performance of implicit mood.

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