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Wish You Were Here I love the beach! This is one of the first of my daily paintings. I decided to take up the challenge to make these small paintings (nearly) every day. This one is 4"x4", acrylic on mini stretched canvas and comes with a mini easel.
Just A Little Venting...
Just A Little Venting…
Little Flower Garden, 8″x8″
“Live life to the fullest”. “Make the most of every moment”. How many times have we all heard this? That’s a lot of pressure. Can we really wrap our brains around making the most of EVERY moment?
I recently learned that one of my former co-workers has breast cancer. I know this because see came in to this place of employment and announced to some of us who happened to…
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Trees As Specialists
Winter Spruce, 12″x9″
The 13th chapter, titled ”Specialists”, explains how trees can grow in extreme environments. Once a seedling sprouts in the spring, it’s bound to that piece of earth for life. Often times, this spot presents challenges for the young tree. It can either be too bright, too dark, too moist, too dry, or have no soil at all as in the case of seeds that fall into rocks or forks in…
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The Mighty Oak...?
The Mighty Oak…?
Mighty Oak, 8″x8″
The title of chapter 12 of The Hidden Life of Trees is “Mighty Oak or Mighty Wimp”. While studying oaks, the author realized that they are often in distress. Attacks from fungi and insects can cause them to panic and grow leaves close to the ground. They need lots of sunlight to photosynthesize. These low growing leaves don’t provide any energy and don’t last long.
In forests,…
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Through The Ages, 14″x11″
Here’s my painting of the next chapter (11: Tree Aging Gracefully) of The Hidden Life of Trees.
The chapter begins with the comparison of human skin to tree “skin”. Mr. Wohlleben points out that the biggest difference is in the vocabulary. For trees we call it bark.
Just as we grow, a tree in its prime adds one half to one inch to its girth every year. Just as with human…
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The Water Mystery...
The Water Mystery…
Thirsty, 14″x11′”
This chapter of The Hidden Life of Trees is a short one. Which actually made it a little more difficult to come up with an image for. It concerns how trees get water to their leaves. The accepted methods are capillary action and transpiration.
Capillaryaction is explained as how your full cup of morning coffee stand a few fractions of an inch higher than the edge of the cup. The…
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United...Again...
United…Again…
United For Life, 18″x24″
I admit it. I have taken a break. I could blame it on the hurricane. Only, it didn’t affect me that much. I was blessed to not have to leave my home in a boat, or dig myself out of a pile of trees. I didn’t have to suffer through sleepless nights in unbearable heat or toss out everything in my refrigerator because there was no power to keep the food cold.
Mostly, it just…
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ABC's for Trees...
ABC’s for Trees…
Wounded Tree, 20″x16″
Yes, my post is a little late this week. Turns out there was this hurricane that blew through. I’m located in Winter Garden, FL which is just west of Orlando. Fortunately, we didn’t have any real damage; just some downed trees (sigh) and debris. So, on with my post.
This chapter, number 8, is about “tree school”. Mr. Wohlleben explains how trees need water to survive. Who…
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Proper and Not-So-Proper...
Proper and Not-So-Proper…
Drunken Forest, 14″x18″
In this, the 7th chapter of The Hidden Life of Trees, Mr. Wohlleben describes what he refers to as “forest etiquette”.
The acceptable form of behavior for a mature deciduous trees is a very straight trunk with roots that reach evenly and all underground, and a symmetrical crown with branches like “arms raised to heaven”.
All of this proper growth etiquette enables the…
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Soooo Sloooow...
Soooo Sloooow…
Getting There, 12″x16″
Chapter 6 of The Hidden Life of Trees explains how slowly trees grow. They want to grow at a faster rate. Their mothers, however, won’t allow it. At least not as long as they’re still around. The adult trees form a large canopy of leaves that only allows about 3 percent of the sunlight to get through to the young children.
This amount of sunlight only allow enough…
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Tree Lottery...
Tree Lottery…
Lucky Sprouts, 18″x24″
This week’s chapter (no. 5: The Tree Lottery) explains how trees budget their strength. They reserve strength for growing and defending themselves against insects and fungi. There’s also strength stored for propagating.
Trees like beeches and oaks that only reproduce every three to five years have a difficult time finding the necessary resources so they will lose their…
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Tree Love...
Tree Love…
“Reproduction” 14″x18″
In this the 4th chapter of The Hidden Life of Trees, we learn about the reproduction process of different species of trees. and the interesting facts about how some species decide amongst themselves about when they will “mate”.
There is a whole eco system involving the insects and animals that rely on the supply of nourishment provided by the reproduction process of trees.…
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Social Security...
Social Security…
“Helping”, 20″x20″
That’s the title of the next chapter in The Hidden Life of Trees.
This 3rd chapter is all about how trees support each other. When one tree gets sick, the others literally reach out to save it. Mr. Wohlleben reports that he has discovered stumps in the forest that should have disappeared long ago. He explains that the other trees are actually providing that stump with sugar…
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The Language...
The Language…
“Language” 28″x22″
This week’s chapter of The Hidden Life of Treesas I interpret it. This chapter deals with the way trees communicate with one another about potential and real dangers. It’s fascinating the way they warn each other of insects and animals that feed off of their bark and leaves. They actually send out a warning gas from one tree to the other. It has been discovered that they also…
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The beginning of something new...
The beginning of something new…
What The Something New Is
I had the good fortune to stumble on the bestselling book by Peter Wohlleben titled The Hidden Life of Trees. As a painter who loves nature and, in particular trees, I was fascinated by the amount of knowledge and insight Mr. Wohlleben has gained from his years as a forester. In fact, I was so exhilarated by what I read that I have decided to create art that is inspired…
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In Search of Alternative Art Mediums
In Search of Alternative Art Mediums
As an artist, I like to think that my art will be around for a very long time. But, I don’t know if that will actually happen. For one thing, I paint acrylic paint on aluminum foil. There’s no question the paint will last. It dries to a plastic-like polymer. There just isn’t any precedent for using it on aluminum foil. That got me to thinking lately about how many other alternative mediums there…
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One Small Step From The Store To Your Home, One Giant Leap For The Planet
One Small Step From The Store To Your Home, One Giant Leap For The Planet
As with most artists, I have a “day job”. Most of us hesitate to admit it since it verifies that we aren’t making a living as an artist. Well, as much as I would like to give that impression, I have bills to pay. So, just between you and me, I do go to a place of employment a few days each week which happens to be a retail job. I’m only revealing this because it’s fitting that I should admit it…
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