Leaf Carving - Neatorama

Leaf carving involves cutting away at a leaf until it reveals an image. This is a craft practiced by Nature's Art, a studio in Hengshui, China. At the link, you can view several other examples as well as instructions on how to make your own.

http://www.longal-craft.com/leaf-carving-art.html via Make | Photo: Nature's Art

It would be much easier to do this on a laser engraver than by hand.

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The design isn't actually cut all the way through the leaf as a laser would; the leaf material is scraped away so it's just much thinner in the areas where the leaf is white (note that it's translucent in step 6 of the how-to PDF at the link). The picture above doesn't quite show this - I thought it was just white paint around a stencil.

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Beautiful!

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I'm going to have to try this. I'm sure it's a lot more difficult than how it looks like on the tutorial though.

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The leaf is not cut out... If you can't notice that the leaf is actually painted with white paint. You put a stencil on the leaf, and paint. Look close next time.

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How to build a car from scrap metal.

1) Find scrap metal.

2) Clean scrap metal.

3) Dry scrap metal.

4) Sort scrap metal.

5) Build car.

6) Profit!

It's easy.

Seriously: it looks nice and all, but it's not carving; it's painting.

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It looks like paint, due to the speckled fading out. But when I looked it up I found very similar images with shadows that probably prove that it is actually carved.
In which case, it is really cool.

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