An easy exercise to 'get your eye in' is to turn back the clock and be a child again and collect some autumn leaves. Collect the leaves from one species of tree and starting from green, track the changing colours. In colder districts you will tend to get a better 'autumn display' as my Grandmother called the beautiful colours found around Stanley, near Bright, where she was brought up.
In my front yard the tree (Liquidambar) is shifting from green to yellow green to yellow then golden yellow with flushes of red. Arrange your collection of leaves in the sequence of changing colours. The challenge then is to select your palette and paint one leaf that 'calls you'. A correctly chosen lean palette, one particular red, yellow and blue will enable you to capture the subtle shifts in the colour sequences. Paint a series of 'patches' first before doing the leaf study.
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