This 18″x24″ pastel painting was painted in plein air. I was fascinated with the abstract quality of all this this texture on the tree bark, and I painted it larger than life to draw attention to what is too often overlooked or ignored. It was blissful to focus so closely on a small thing.
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I used lichen as bushes in my my prehistoric landscape created on a table (turned sand box) in Mr Walker’s 5 th grade class at Elm Grove Elementary School, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. TMI?
My 5th grade diorama was encircled covered wagons in the Rocky Mountains. The teacher (Mrs.Pitts) loved it so much she kept it in her classroom for a decade until she retired.
I like lichen, too.