Three Trees
by Beverley Harper Tinsley
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$275
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9.000 x 12.000 inches
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Title
Three Trees
Artist
Beverley Harper Tinsley
Medium
Painting - Watercolor And Graphite
Description
Three Trees
Three Trees is a wet, wild and calligraphic watercolor painting of three aspen trees on a slope; a classic Colorado landscape scene, depicted in vivid colors. Autumnal yellow leaves crown these white barked trees, but high in the sky, as I didn’t precisely want them to be the main focus, the way they (rightfully) are in so many paintings. 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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For this painting, I chose to experiment with working on hot press watercolor paper, which has a much smoother texture than the cold press I customarily use, and which I find to offer major differences in how the plaint flows, blends, absorbs and dries.
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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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Three Trees is currently priced as professionally matted and framed in a simple white mat and very high end champagne/silver colored wood frame. Please email the artist for photos of art as framed.
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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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