Beautiful Leaf Carvings (10 Total)

Recently leaf carvings have emerged as a new way to appreciate what mother nature "leaves" behind. (Pun intended.) With delicate precision, the artist slowly scrapes off the leaf's outer layers, revealing its near transparent surface. Not just any leaf will do, artists prefer using the leaves of the Chinar tree, which is native to India, Pakistan, and China. Resembling maple leaves, the distribution of veins in the Chinar leaves are the best suited for this kind of art and the leaves are considered 'lucky' in Chinese tradition.

See more at Henan Xingyi

Via TreeHugger

Tags: art, carvings, form, leaf

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Comment by Inka Leoni on February 4, 2010 at 10:27pm: Nice. Haha would be mad funny to suddenly find a sexy leaf like the top one between a bunch of normal ones.

Comment by Kevin on February 4, 2010 at 9:17pm: what a strange but awesome meduim!

Comment by sAm on February 4, 2010 at 10:10am: Great detail, truly beautiful!

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