I think the most accurate way of getting the leaf skeleton is taking a print directly from it, so I thought about doing some rubbings of them.
First of it I got some leaves out of the garden yesterday, so by this morning they were quite crispy and I figured this would be better.
So I usually work on the underside of the leaf because it has a stronger outline on it. Just add the paper you want the rubbing on on top of the leaf, making sure there are no awkward folds, this was another advantage of leaving it overnight, it had seemed to calm down a little with the folding.
I just got some simple oil pastels as I think the consistency of them would make for the best impression. Kids do this a lot and I remember rubbing coins and things when I was younger and we would just use crayons, so I think an oil pastel is quite close to this.
Draw over the paper with the leaf underneath, I tend to go sideways over the veins as it picked up more of them, especially with this particular leaf but it could be different with a different leaf.
Tahlia Paige 