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After a month and a half I finished the trunk of the tree. It’s a dream based on two separate, but real redwoods on our mountain
The leaning giant. 2 months into carving, finishing up branching and moving to foliage. With trees that are a couple hundred years old and above, every branch has its own character after weathering multiple storms, droughts, and breakages.
At 6-8hrs a day, 3 months deep. Finally about to do the blocking before blasting out the background which might take another week or two. Getting excited
Ghosting around this 300ft tall redwood makes me never want to encounter a human again.
hanging with OG trees.
Ceruchus striatus, the redwood stag beetle. Important decomposers of old growth redwood logs.
Getting the block printed with The Aesthetic Union, James pulling the first print. I love putting dreams onto woodblocks and linocuts and doing the carving, but I’m getting more comfortable with delegating the final printing to someone who does it professionally everyday of their lives. Watching someone intuit the needed pressure, ink density, and being able to adapt around problems quickly, it makes you appreciate collaboration. Not having to do everything on your own.
The leaning giant, loosely based on an actual redwood from our mountain that I see almost everyday. The three bends in the upper part of the tree are actually caused by breakages it had in the past and healed over, so it gives the tree an almost snake like trunk. 3 1/2 months of carving.
The matriarch redwood of our mountain, so many memories under this tree. A beautiful and ancient broken top.
I have spent years documenting as many old growth trees in our watershed as I can and this is still one of my favorite trees and it still pulls me in every time I see it.
The print of this tree was circulating and this is what it’s based on, the mother of our mountain. An ancient ridge top giant that’s so old that the growth fissures are almost nonexistent.
Scenes from one of the more intact old growth forests here.
Another mother of our mountain
