Green leaf, thoughts on Fall season

I did this impression awhile back, using a leaf and a mix of green paint I pressed onto the paper. Its an elementary school trick, but still loads of fun. Looks like I may have touched up the image in a few places with a brush. Its fitting then, to show a green leaf in the Fall season considering how warm its been. Although the leaves turned yellow, orange and red there were plenty of green leaves and grass around Montreal. Back in the old days, like 20 odd years ago, it was rare to get any quality painting time in the Fall. Here is a scene of a classic car on a Fall day north of Bolton, and one of my favorites of colourful reflections on the Thames river in London Ontario. But those were small windows of time when the sky was blue and leaves coloured. Most of the time, and for years in a row, fall would arrive with cold, wet wind and the leaves would fall off, or the colours would last barely a week with overcast weather. I remember thinking at the time that I would never figure out how to paint in the Fall season with how little time there was to paint. Nowadays, the Fall season goes on and on, at least for painting the colourful leaves! Of course Fall is a fixed time, it ends on November 30 going by meteorological seasons or Dec 21st according to the Solstice . 

Green leaf, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, 2020