The trees are so beautiful in the Fall. It’s like they’re dressed for a ball. In leaves of oranges and yellows, all of the fellows stand so gloriously so proud and so tall.
I wrote the above in my poetry notebook while working on another of my tree portraits…
In addition to finishing up my tree portraits for upcoming art exhibits at the Aurora Gallery I’m working towards two art plus books events at Vintage Books. One of those events is a grouping of my tree artworks with some tree themed books. Here’s my bibliography related to trees.
There are other tree related books which I’ve read that didn’t make it into my to-be-public bibliography not because they weren’t worthy but because of space and ease of finding them reasons. Some, like this poetry collection, The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang, may be a bit harder to find, but are worth the efforts.
And I’m suspecting – hoping – that the bookstore will introduce me to more tree related books in the process of doing our art plus books display!
Reading is such an important part of my creativity that it feels fun to me to physically show my art plus books connections – a kind of art installation- and it’s so kind of Vintage Books to indulge me!
It’s fun to share even more of my art plus books connections here on my blog and I thank you too for the indulgence!
Speaking of how very important it is to read when you’re a creative person there’s a wonderful article by Austin Kleon about Werner Herzog’s advice on reading.
My other event at Vintage Books will be me live-drawing… on Dec 9 from 1 to 3 in the afternoon I will create little drawings inspired by photos people can show me on their phones. Besides the drawing I will put the art in small frames so they can be taken and gifted as stocking stuffers.
A friend sent me a photo of one of her dog and a kid so I could practice as well as send the bookstore an example of my work that they could share on their social media.
Lots of work to do…
Well, if you’ve noticed that my blog and website looks different or if you noticed that I didn’t respond to your comment on my last blog post – it’s because I got the bright idea to simplify my website and ended up complicating things instead. So I lost some stuff – including snafus around the comments – sorry about that. Anyway here we are now. And I have more work to do on my website too… 🤦♀️
As a result over on my email newsletter Saint Head In The Clouds appeared.
See you here next Monday, technology gods permitting.
sue clancy - artist 
11 responses to “Books for the trees and such”
I realized the other day that I might be banging on too much about my enthusiasm for the changing colours of Autumn leaves when I was talking about it (again) with my preschool students and one of them rolled his sweet little eyes at me and exclaimed, “We know already!”
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Trust a preschooler to tell it like it is!
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The honesty can be quite brutal yet charming.
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Absolutely!! An eon ago I was giving a drawing class to 1st and 2nd graders and was talking about body language and fiction characters having “signature moves”… among other cartoon and real life characters I mentioned Elvis. One kid said to another “Who’s Elvis?” The second kid replied “The dinosaur I think but whatever just make your drawing do something.” And I thought that’s it, all of the instructions on visual art, in a nutshell!!
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Dinosaur? Elvis the dinosaur? Where did the dinosaur come from? I love the kid’s instructions to his classmate!
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No clue about the dinosaur either!! 🤣 And I loved the kids instructions too!!! I try to follow it too!! 😊🤗💚💚💚
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Lol!!! Yes, little ones haven’t much tolerance with repetitions (except in their own choices of a favorite food, book, song or movie) of us “old folks”. Something I was reading the other day talked about how when we’re young we view time/life as an arrow that should only be moving one direction – towards new stuff! As one gets older we view time/life as cyclical and we hope for repetitions of good things and look forward to them! Lol!! Keep banging on about your enthusiasms you’ll be teaching them how to cope with people’s eccentricities 🤣🤣💚
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That’s a really fun analogy to explain how we perceive time as we grow older and more experienced.
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That’s a great tree book bibliography! The live-drawing sounds like so much fun. I’ll bet people will love it!
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I’m delighted to hear you liked my tree book bibliography!! It’s been fun to put together. And, thank you, I appreciate your well wishes! 💚💚💚
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You’re most welcome, Sue!
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