Heritage 07 - Bonfire Days

Image: 8"w X 11"h 
Framed 11"w x 14"h

Won a 3rd place ribbon at the Heritage Fall Fair 2007

This is one of my marbled papers done on Hosho rice paper.

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"MarbleBkgrds"

I punched out some leaves and used it as a stencil using Versa Mark Chalk stamp pads in yellow, mango, olive & java. Then with a Black micron pen shadowed the leaves. Added veins with a Brown Zig marker. The poem is written with the zig marker as well in a very loose italic script..

Matted with a rust brown mat and framed with a shiny gold metal frame

.Words:
Ho! for the
Leaves that eddy down,
crumpled yellow and withered brown,
hither and yonder and up the street
and trampled under passing feet;
swirling billowing drifting by,
with a whisper soft & rustling sigh,
starting aloft to windy ways,
telling the coming of 
bonfire days

Grace Strickler Dawson "Bonfire Days"