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Forester with industry, BC and Canada for 35 years. Now peacefully retired and drawing what the eye often overlooks - forms and patterns of tree bark - including the organisms living there.
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This is an experimental drawing of a tiny Ponderosa bark in colour pencil on canvas which is wrapped around an 8x8x1.5" cradled panel. I like the more abstract look of this work, as the canvas gives it more interest. I think I'll try a larger surface next time.

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Sitka Spruce Surreal, 10x10x1.5" colour pencil, ink on cradled panel. What is just beyond the reach of the human eye captivates me artistically and with colour pencils, allows me to come closer to reality than with any other art medium. #sitkaspruce #treebark #colourpencil #drawing #art

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I'm all for that! Leave the Amerika behind until they grow up and maybe we'll let them play in the sandbox with the rest of the sane world. Haven't read the article (behind the paywall). What do you think? www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

He's far from perfect but I'll take him before the other contenders, including Trump. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Why the USA should become Canada's 11th province, by Pete McMartin in the Vancouver Sun: vancouversun.com/opinion/colu.... I'd say "Hell no!"

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Americans invaded Canada twice: 1775 and 1812. You lost. The USA's $50 B trade deficit with Canada is not a subsidy. You need & buy our resources. We don't buy as much from you due to your manufacturing decline and low worker & investment productivity.

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Sitka's Jewels. Colour pencil drawing on cradled panel 8x8x1.2" drawn from the photo taken early December 2024 and shown in previous post. The Donald can purchase this if he gets in contact with me. I don't discriminate against my collectors. #sitkaspruce #sitkasprucebark #colourpencilart

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Ponderosa pine has the most visually attractive bark in Western Canada. The understated colour of its bark is characteristic of ponderosa growing in the South Cariboo, BC compared to those in the Okanagan. Colour pencil on paper, 30x22" Sold #bark #ponderosa #southcariboo #artonpaper

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New climate benefit from trees - methane gobbling microbes living on tree bark. Calculating surface area of tree bark = the earth's land surface and bark is covered with microbes See: Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces, Nature 631, p796–800, 2024. #tree #bark #methane

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I like and trust Harry Litman. Sorry to see him go but he went for all the right reasons

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

Coat of Many Colours - Eastern white pine bark. Colour pencil drawing 28x22" on cradled panel, framed. Hangs in a physiotherapist's office and patients like the calming effects of the detail, losing their anxieties in the complexities of crevices, scale layers, and colours of blue-green algae.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

My first birch drawing done few years ago. It hangs in an architects office in West Vancouver

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