…..painting birch trees on a piece of carpenter’s shim
I’ve recently taken an on-line course called Paint Your Garden where most of the projects were done on birch plywood. I loved using this surface for painting. While at at the cottage I noticed that we had a lot of shim left over from a recent building project so I chose a piece and primed it with Gesso.
I’ve always loved birch trees and since I’m surrounded by them I decided to use the forest as my garden for this project.
Acrylic paint on 8 x 18 inch cedar shim.
Close-up of tree on the right.
Close-up of the base of one of the trees.
To finish this project I’m planning on drilling two small holes at the top and adding wire to hang.
Mama Cormier 
Wow, so pretty!
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Thank you, it was fun to do.
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That turned out amazing
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Thanks for your comment.
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I love these! The top one reminds me a bit of the dot paintings done by Australian indigenous artists – it is a style all of its own. Yours are slightly less “dotty” but still have that wonderful effect.
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I love that aboriginal style of art. Melissa McKinnon in Calgary does fantastic paintings of birch trees with leaves done in this style but with much thicker blobs of paint and many of her paintings are much larger. Thank you for your kind words.
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I like all of these, but the top one is my favorite, maybe because it shows the group of trees. Are birch trees the ones that are connected underground? I love that.
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The bottom two are just close-ups of the top painting. I’m not sure about being connected underground.
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Although lots of birches grow here, for some reason they tend to remind me of Denmark where people plant them right up to the walls of their weekend cabins – not just for privacy but because of the wonderful filtered light they give.
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