Colorful Colorado
by Beverley Harper Tinsley
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$175
Dimensions
8.000 x 6.000 inches
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Title
Colorful Colorado
Artist
Beverley Harper Tinsley
Medium
Painting - Watercolor And Graphite
Description
Colorful Colorado is a warm toned, wet, and richly colored watercolor painting of an aspen stand; a classic Colorado landscape scene, depicted in vivid colors, with plenty of layering. At the peak of the season, the colors of the aspen forest seem to glow against the dark backdrop of coniferous forest. I especially love how the waxy white bark picks up other, surrounding colors, in certain lights, and the dark scarring, eyes and knobby growths that show me how the tree has really lived, and seen so much that I can only guess at.
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Colorful Colorado is double matted with a larger white mat and a thin band of earthy red brown, in a vintage gold frame of high quality. Please email the artist if you would like to see photos of the art as framed.
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According to: https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/tree-profile-aspen-so-much-more-than-a-tree
One aspen tree is actually only a small part of a larger organism. A stand or group of aspen trees is considered a singular organism with the main life force underground in the extensive root system. Before a single aspen trunk appears above the surface, the root system may lie dormant for many years until the conditions are just right, including sufficient sunlight. In a single stand, each tree is a genetic replicate of the other, hence the name a “clone” of aspens used to describe a stand.
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Older than the massive Sequoias or the biblical Bristlecone Pines, the oldest known aspen clone has lived more than 80,000 years on Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. Not only is the clone the oldest living organism, weighing in at an estimated 6,600 tons, it is also the heaviest. Even if the trees of a stand are wiped out, it is very difficult to permanently extinguish an aspen’s root system due to the rapid rate in which it reproduces.
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Please visit: https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/tree-profile-aspen-so-much-more-than-a-tree for far more fascinating information about aspens, and also to support the National Forest Foundation that is helping to keep these trees healthy and thriving.
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September 18th, 2017
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