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Pep Talk for a Tree
Tree Graffiti in LA
Vintage Photo: Tree at Dyker Park, Brooklyn, NYC 1989
Tree in Burbank
Here’s a vintage sketch from 2010. I’ve been self-isolating this past week, as I’ve not been well and do not want to cough on people at work (or get coughed on).
Beginning of Tree Outline
Complete with flag suggesting placement of supplemental limb.
Tree Bark Burl Texture
Skin Deep
I love textures of all kinds. But rough textures are the best to photograph. Oblique lighting reveals all the nooks and crannies. This is a close up of a bit of skin. It could be a picture of the hide of an animal, for all its wrinkles and fur. But it is bark, the skin […]
Overdone?
The loquat tree in the back yard is just drooping with fruit. As soon as they are ripe, the squirrels will descend like locusts and the loquats will be gone. I worry about the branches, which are already strained with weight. Adding the weight of a couple of squirrels could be disastrous. The timing will be tricky […]
After Klee’s “Little Tree and Shrubbery”
I was thumbing through a book of Paul Klee’s work and came across Little Tree Amid Shrubbery. At first it just looked like patches of color. When I looked at this piece from a distance, the bushes in the foreground came into clear focus. They were three dimensional. I still didn’t get the sky though. […]
