Cheltenham Badlands, Caledon, Print

This beautiful heritage site is located near Caledon, Ontario. Creating this piece involved sorting through over 500 fall leaves and several attempts to capture the right shading and undulations of the dunes. In addition, attention to the veining and directionality of the veining in the leaves was critical to the success of this piece.

The dunes were created using various shades of fall leaves: ornamental pear, burning bush, and yellow ginkgo, as well as dyed red daisy florets. Touches of mountain wildcat flowers represent the wildflowers growing at the edges of the dunes. The trees were created using raintree and rose leaves and leather leaf fern. Finishing this piece are natural blue hydrangea petals.