A photo of an open black paper sketchbook, placed on a wooden desk and surrounded by a paint brush, paint tubs, coloured pencils, branches, leaves, flowers, and crystals. The sketchbook page features a painting of a tree with blue foliage, almost glowing teal at the rim. The trunk is separated in two at the basem forming a rounded hollow in which a few small glowing blue mushrooms shelter. The trunk refuses towards the top. At the base of the tree lush greenery surround the roots.
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May 13, 1983: Heading north from Springer Mountain, the tiny unincorporated community of Wesser, North Carolina is the first trail town through which the #AppalachianTrail physically passes. This corner of Wesser is a narrow strip along the floor of the deep, heavily-wooded, steep-walled gorge which the Nantahala River has gouged through the mountains.
A bright sunny day on a slope just above the bank of a river which is creating a series of whitewater rapids. There are some trees to our left. A rustic wooden building on the far bank has a big hand-painted sign that reads "Nantahala Outdoor Center Outfitters Restaurant". Some steps lead down from this building to the river. A narrow two-lane road is glimpsed just past the outfitters building. Beyond that a densely-forested slope climbs steeply up a mountainside.
Made another little sculpture, this time to test the pink phosphorescent paint. (Which looks orange in the dark but that doesn’t make it any less magical. :’D)
"I wouldn't be happy if I had to live in another place for very long. I would hate to live up in the northwest where all them trees are, you can't hardy see the sky because there's so many trees. I'd miss these here great distances when I get out of this country. I'd be lost if I had to live in another place."
--Kent Frost, "My Canyonlands: The Adventurous Life of Kent Frost (Sageland Media, 2009).
A color landscape photo of a very green lush meadow with a barn on the right. Rolling mountains in the background are densely covered in conifer trees. Filter sunlight reaches the barn and meadow while the mountains are shroud in fog.
Painting of a capybara in a lake surrounded by a dark forest with a pale white glow through the trees. There ar glowing orange plants on the side of the lake. The artist's signature and watermark @joyousjoyfuljoyness are at the bottom right.
🔴This artwork is now sold, thank you so much!
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A tiny painting of a forest in greens and yellows.
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Watercolour and mixed media on white acid free artist watercolour paper.
Approximately 7.5 x 7.5cm, will fit a 3 x 3 inch photo frame.
Deer in a dry field, there are males and females, trees can be seen in the background. In the center is a deer with majestic antlers, looking side over its shoulder.
Layered mountain ridges rise beneath a cool winter sky, their snow-dusted slopes fading into mist above a quiet line of evergreens and a pale, grassy foreground.
A dry branch sticking upwards out of the snow. Dry yellow-beige grasses are draped over this branch. From above, the grass and branches are covered with snow. The grasses are arranged neatly next to each other and resemble spaghetti drying on a branch. The background of the frame and the base of the grass in the snow.
“Morning Light” is one of those paintings that is quite old but still holds a special place in my heart since it was one of my first gouache paintings I really liked. 💚
And it seems you really like it too because the postcards recently sold out, BUT I was able to restock them today! 😁
A photo of a small, portrait-format painting, placed on a wooden desk and surrounded by postcards of the same motif. The painting features a paved pathway through lush green woods, with soft dappled light in the foreground, and brighter light around a bend further along the path.
We keep prototyping our Forest in a Box and we’re now at stage 0.2. The first iteration felt much more like a contemplative object than an actual game, so we began adjusting the balance by removing some animals and introducing new elements with clearer play potential. Next, we’ll focus on defining the sizes and relationships between the pieces.