I Am A Treehugger

So it's Tuesday again with Artmind. My contribution is a mosaic worshiping the tree. I love trees. It started early for me. When I was a little girl I thought I could hear the trees talk to me when I put my little arms around them and rested my cheek against their bark. I imagined that they would whisper their secrets to me as they rustled their leaves. It made me happy to walk among the huge trees in the Old Growth Forest of BC.

1. Sun and Rain 14230509, 2. Magic forest: Pink, 

3. On the Red Carpet, 4. Under the Tree at Portland Japanese Garden

To me, there are few things as majestic and beautiful than a tree, arms outstretched. Of course, there is the well known verse by Joyce Kilmer that starts with "I think I shall never see...". But many a wordsmith has had something to say about trees, and I must agree with them. Here are a few.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.

- William Blake

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, 
or an old acquaintance among the pines.

- Henry David Thoreau

On the subject of art, I've been waylaid lately from doing as much as I'd like. I have started making ATC's at night, since I finally received the blank ATC watercolor papers I ordered a month ago. Here are a couple...

 

I will also soon be acquiring my own set of Copic markers! :o)  I'm pretty excited. It took a long time to figure out exactly what I wanted and what I might have to sacrifice to make them work the way I want them to. For their purpose, I might have to switch papers. I'm not gonna say how I want to use them, that'll be a surprise, but I will say I think it's going to be amazing.  Copics are just so good I can't see using another marker. So, I might have to switch to a less absorbent paper when I work with them. Before going that route though, I'm going to try to find some sort of spray fixative that might seal the paper from being so absorbent. We'll see. I'll keep you informed of my progress. Think of it like a secret project. Hehehehe. I'm the mad scientist, errr... I mean, artist!

Oh, and I've been working on a baby cake that's due (the cake, that is...) in less than a week. So, I'll be posting the topper and also a picture of the completed cake by Sunday. Think of this announcement like a trailer for a movie. Hehehe. (Out in theaters on Sunday!!!)

Anyhoo, talk at ya'all later, K?

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