Paper trees
I came across this beautiful Betula papyrifera, known as a paper birch tree, at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Its peeling bark created beautiful markings across the surface of the tree. I was drawn to the look of the pale green and blush coloured stripes against the highlights of the white bark. Be warned, if you stare too long you may start to see faces in the bark!
'Paper Birch'
Watercolour on paper.
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Wonderful photos @opheliafu
Glad you like them!
Beautiful tree, what a good inspiration for any job, not just for painting.
Beautiful work congratulations lady @opheliafu, thank you for sharing this marvelous work
Well with a name like paper birch it's crying to be put into a painting!
Beautiful! Those paper birches are prevalent here in the upper Midwest, there are whole forests of them in Northern Minnesota.
You are a lucky man! I wouldn't get very far walking through a forest of these trees, I would stop at every tree to sketch it!
wow, really cool
Thank you @allstarrunner
the tree bark is so beautiful, almost surreal!
They are stunning trees, I think all birch trees are.
Thanks for the great post. The artwork is great, and the faces I see too ( : I used to write home to my mother now and then on birch bark, when I lived in Minnesota for a summer. She got a kick out of it. An old fashioned sort of thing to do, if not hard on the trees. Thanks for sharing your art.
That's a very nice story. I did have a look on the ground to see if the bark had flaked off, but there was nothing but leaves. The bark colours are beautiful.
Thank you. Maybe someone used the bark to write to someone they knew. Or a squirrel used it for a nest. So many possibilities, so few..barks? These trees are beautiful, and the moss/algae makes them even more so. At first glance, the tree banding in your photo looks almost made-up.
We have some river birch in the area that have darker brown bark, not as good for letter writing, but gorgeous colors for photography/painting.
The blush coloured bark is unusual and eye catching, it was the strip's of that colour that drew my attention to the tree.
Copper birch trees are also very beautiful but I haven't come across one on my recent travels.