When you walk by, you see a tree

Louise’s Tree journal.

When I first got the journal I thought I would do a spread about ‘Green men’.I thought they sounded like a fun thing to do. I found a lot of info online and lots of reference pictures

I began by sketching one out with a green watercolour pencil. But it just wasn’t happening, the sketch was fine but I just didn’t like the feel of the spread. So I went looking for more inspiration, and I came across this poem by Sophia Cupcake that hit the right spot and the spread came together with ease and fun. I only used part of the poem but I did write the whole poem out on another piece of paper and put it in the journal. I used acrylic paint,a handmade stencil and collage.

I wet my watercolour sketch of my green man and while that was drying I found some tree words in the dictionary and then I collaged them down and added green paint. I sketched in my dryad and gave her some skin tone. Next I added some branches.

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 Then I stenciled some leaves from a stencil I made out of a page protector

I then found some more leaves on a paper napkin, so I cut them out and collaged them and gave her face some final details.

Lastly I wrote the first few lines of the poem 

When you walk by,you see a tree 

But when no one  there to see

A dryad

Melts out of the tree

And flits

And floats

And light-heartedly leaps

The leaves swirl around her

Like a cyclone

Like a whirlwind 

And suddenly there’s not just one,but many nymphs

I had a lot of fun with this journal ,I hope you enjoy it too.