My mixed media group is now painting leaves too. A friend and I dropped by the senior center to collect a bunch of leaves, and the next day when mm girls showed up at my place, they could pick out leaves to draw and paint. We had such a good time we did this two meetings in a row. At the first class I provided watercolor paper with the outlines of leaves drawn on and backgrounds painted in acrylics. This was for those that always say, I can't draw. No excuses accepted. And it was fun to do. In fact so much fun, I painted another batch of backgrounds to use myself. Lol