Tree Graphic Inspiration

This weekend I used some inspiration from Mark Montano's craft books to use blue painter's tape to make a tree and then paint (first with the tape on and then with it off). He had used this method on a table, but I thought I'd extrapolate and do it on a canvas and then on a plate that I picked up at the thrift store (set of 5 for $2.50). I've only done one plate so far. For the canvas I first free handed a tree (using acrylic) and then taped over it and painted the gray to create a geometric type tree. For the plate, I taped first, did the purple spray paint, and then pulled off the tape and spray painted the orange (all on the back of the plate of course).

Lotus Mosaic

Airplane Water Witness

These photos were taken from a 6-passenger plane on the way to a small exploration site 1 hour north of Anchorage for wetlands fieldwork. I think it's pretty interesting to see what slow moving water will do... definitely interesting paths.

Wind

(1) Cottongrass (photographed in Barrow, Alaska) and (2) Squirreltail Grass (photographed near Matanuska Glacier, Alaska)