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Sharing the Love of Trees in Community, cont’d (Janelle)
Posted in Art, Sharing the Love of Trees, Stories, tree stories, Treewhispers, tagged Art, Handmade paper, honoring trees, storytelling, tree art, tree stories, Treewhispers on July 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Janelle is inspired by nature to explore her interests in painting and handlettering.
At our gathering, she shared that in Spring when the tulip trees are in bloom, she enjoys visiting familiar trees in the community to admire their annual show.
From this, Janelle painted a pink bloom and chose a quote about life for one round.
For the other one, she brush lettered an encouraging Bible verse along with a painting of a tree of life.
Artwork by Janelle, Story by Phawnda Moore
Sharing the Love of Trees in Community, cont’d (Debra)
Posted in Art, Sharing the Love of Trees, Stories, tree stories, tagged Art, Handmade paper, honoring trees, storytelling, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers on June 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Debra Brown is a pharmacist who’s approaching retirement to pursue creative interests. She’s exploring watercolor, charcoal and drawing and has also dabbled in mixed media collage.
Debra’s interpretive rounds, both excerpts from Mary Oliver poems, are both literal and figurative. She likes poetry that uses the setting of the natural world to speak about living our lives.
“In one round, I chose to use watercolor as the entrance to the door of the woods. In the Zentangle piece, I let the various patterns interpret how life can change and go in different directions, and still be a beautiful result.”
Mary Oliver’s poems inspire me to connect with the beauty and serenity of nature whenever possible.”
Artwork by Debra Brown, Story by Phawnda Moore
Sharing the Love of Trees in Community, cont’d (Connie)
Posted in Art, Sharing the Love of Trees, Stories, tagged Art, Handmade paper, honoring trees, storytelling, tree art, tree stories, Treewhispers on June 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Connie Burdick works with dry felting in animals, mixed media, using scraps of all kinds, building with coils or slabs of clay for whimsy and practical uses, drawing and watercolor.
She painted a lighthearted tree and included some interesting facts about trees on the other side of her piece.
“I love trees and the bounty they provide to both humans and wildlife. In His wisdom, God has provided us with earth, water, plants, and wildlife. Trees play an integral part of our life on this planet. We need to be kinder to nature and to each other if we are to continue to survive. Meeting the other women filled my heart with much hope for the future of mankind and our world.”
Artwork by Connie Burdick, Story by Phawnda Moore
I’D RATHER WRITE OR PAINT
Posted in Art, Stories, tree stories, tagged honoring trees, Marth Slavin, Postcards in the Air, storytelling, tree stories on May 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »
from Martha Slavin’s Postcards in the Air
When we cleaned out our attic last week, I rediscovered my art portfolios from long ago including an unopened package from my parents that to my disbelief contained examples of my school years work from kindergarten to college that my dad had saved. Like father, like daughter. I had to laugh at this generational inclination to record our histories. I had done the same thing for our son.
These old drawings intrigued me because I noticed a stream of subjects that held my interest from one year to the next. I drew dozens of trees, many women in fashionable outfits, and figures from weddings. In high school and college, I filled large newsprint pads with drawings of models in every position imaginable. I created a zillion graphic designs as well.
I have been amazed at the quantity of work, which as I leafed through the stacks of paper, helped me to see my progression from awkwardness to confidence as an artist. If only we all had such similar detailed information to look back on for signs of our growth in other areas of our life, we could say to ourselves, “Good enough.”
I thought of my mantra: “practice, practice, practice,” and realized I had done just that. Now my question is: what do I keep?
What is your tree story?
Posted in Stories, tree stories, Trees, tagged honoring trees, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers on January 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We all have at one time in our life experienced a tree in one way or another.
We climbed trees with our friends seeing who could climb the highest, built a tree house that was our refuge, walked through a cool dense forest in the springtime, plucked a plump red apple off a tree, speculated on what kind of a tree we would be.
On a hot summer evening, did you run to a tree for safe base when you played tag?
Somewhere within you there is a tree story.
Just as the rings of a tree embody the stories of the tree, so too we carry the stories of trees. These stories inspire us to renew our sense of wonder. They connect us to one another through shared experiences as they deepen our understanding to our connection with nature.
Christmas Baby
Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Stories, tree stories, tagged Christmas Baby, Handmade paper, honoring trees, papermaking, storytelling, tree art, Treewhispers on December 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
She Stands for All
Posted in Handmade paper, Stories, tree stories, Treewhispers, tagged Handmade paper, honoring trees, tree stories, Treewhispers on December 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Weeping Willow
Posted in Art, Handmade paper, Stories, tree stories, Treewhispers, tagged Handmade paper, honoring trees, papermaking, tree, tree stories, Treewhispers on October 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Story and art by A. Kaunuda
Visiting the willow was my reason for joining my uncle and cousin on their spring/summer fishing trek to the Washington Park Lagoon.
Three blocks from our house was my grandmother’s flower garden where they dug up the worms for bait.
I packed a picnic lunch because they never ever caught any fish.
While they baited the hooks at the water’s edge I climbed into the welcoming embrace of the sturdy weeping willow branch that extend out over the surface of the lagoon. With my back against the trunk and my feet dangling over the branches just inches from the water’s surface, I sang and cloud surfed and danced my whispered dreams. I skipped across the water with dragonflies, floated on the surface with willow leaves, inhaled spring and exhaled summer into the last autumn sunset.
Elderflora
Posted in Stories, tree stories, Trees, tagged honoring trees, Trees, Treewhispers on October 12, 2022| Leave a Comment »
“Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees” by Jared Farmer
Sunday, October 23 2022 – 1:00pm
Event Speaker: Jared Farmer
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
Upper Gallery, Widener Visitor Center
Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania 100 E. Northwestern Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118
Please join us on Sunday, October 23, 1:00–3:00 pm, for the official book launch of Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees, by prize-winning author and historian Jared Farmer.
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth.
Moving from the ancient past to the present and traveling the world from India to Australia to Mexico to Wales, Farmer introduces readers to some of the most cherished remaining big old trees in existence while taking a deep dive into the botany of longevity and the discipline of tree-ring science. It is his hope that we can all channel our shared respect for these trees into collective action to preserve them for future generations.
A presentation by the author will be followed by Q&A and time for book signing. Advance registration is required, and space is limited.
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY: All event registrants will receive complimentary admission to the Morris Arboretum on October 23 to spend time before or after the launch event to explore the grounds. Please visit www.morrisarboretum.org for hours.
Thank you to Leslie Winakur for sharing the post!
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/events/elderflora-modern-history-ancient-trees-jared-farmer
Angelic tree story
Posted in Art, Stories, tree stories, Trees, tagged honoring trees, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers on September 7, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Photo by Dona Liston
Grateful to Leslie Winakur for sharing this beautiful tree story.
You Can See
Posted in Stories, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers, tagged honoring trees, tree stories, Treewhispers on February 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Ginko!
Posted in Art, Paper-making, Stories, Trees, tagged Art, Handmade paper, honoring trees, Treewhispers on August 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Artwork by Renée Tuveson, South Bend, IN, 2013
Creations from the Texas Council of Oaks IX
Posted in Art, Calligraphy, Handmade paper, Paper-making, Stories, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers, tagged Art, calligraphy, Handmade paper, Trees on October 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Goguac Lake
Posted in Art, Stories, tree stories, Trees, Treewhispers, tagged Art, Goguac Lake, nature, storytelling, Trees on May 22, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I was lucky enough to grow up on a big lake outside Battle Creek Michigan. Our house faced sunset and my dad and I enjoyed watching sunsets and changes in weather together.
One of the most beautiful things about living on Goguac Lake (an old Indian name), was the amazing tree cover. The whole area had beautiful tall, mature trees that had been there for a long, long, time. In the summer there when it was hot and steamy, as we drove up to the house the air temperature was at least ten degrees cooler up by the house, thanks to the trees. We were very aware of what a gift it was to live where we did under those big, beautiful trees.
Text and art by Kathy McCreedy, Michigan
My Tree
Posted in Art, Calligraphy, Stories, tree stories, Treewhispers, tagged calligraphy, Pamela Rodey, Persimmon tree, tree art, Treewhispers on November 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Pamela Rodey, Flossmoor, IL USA
Locust gaurdian
Posted in Calligraphy, Paper-making, Stories, tree stories, Treewhispers, tagged Handmade paper, honoring trees, Locust gaurdian, tree art, Treewhispers on November 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »
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