#tree art

[petersolarz]

Untitled © Peter Solarz

[luxudus]

PLANT STUDIES! all the way back in February I wanted to explore the anatomy and evolution of Irou's plant-life to differentiate them from earth plants. which led me down the rabbit hole of Speculative Botany and early plant evolution. Which led me out of that rabbit hole and into studying how to draw plants in general. Which is where I am now.

The bottom quintet of trees is from when I was actually figuring out how to even paint foliage progressing from left to right.

The top trio of trees were referenced from a set of photos I took at a Botanical Garden I went to back in march. Some friends helped me identify the first two trees being a Jabuticaba and possibly a day palm tree. The last plant I hadn't verified yet but I'm pretty sure it might be a jade plant/money tree (Crassula ovata) or at least a plant in that genus.

And lastly to throw a bone to the people here for my spec-bio. In the bottom left are two sophont sketches from my side project A Story of Our Universe. What do they share in common? Evolutionary speaking they're both more plant than animal.

The first sophont (left) we don't properly know their real name, we just call them Nightwalkers. Everything we will come to know about them comes from evesdropping on radio communication between various members of the Intergalactic community. What we will know though is that the Nightwalkers first evolved a staggering 8 billion years ago, during the very tail end of the first age of sapience.

They were one of the few Sophonts at the time to reach the stars completely on their own. And were one of the very few to be Initiators in first contact with the Eldest sophonts; the Factorem and Bellators. They lived their lives out their little corner of space, just outside the Hercules-Corona-Borealis great wall, some 10 billion light years away from us. They would eventually go extinct some 2-3 billion years ago, fizzling out in the aftermath of the Eldest Alliance's Death throes.

They evolved on a cold, dark, and damp planet that sat on the frost line of their sun's habitable zone. A World so dark it was said you could still see the stars even on the brightest of days, Which is where our name for them came from. The Nightwalkers themselves evolved from a kind of motile vine-like algae. which over hundreds of millions of years evolved bilateral symmetry, Hydraulic muscles and compound eyes from light sensitive leaves. They still retain plenty of floral features, cells with walls and vacuoles, A circulatory system derived from a "xylem and phloem". And an alternating life generation cycle of "Gametophyte" and "sporophyte" sexes.

The second sophont (right) we will come to know alot about. They aren't from some distant galaxy or lived and died before anything on our planet consisted of more than one cell. And we wouldn't hear them from the distant radio chatter of unimaginably larger civilizations. On the grander scale of the universe, the Thau'Lix evolve right on our backyard. They would be the only other sapient species to hail from the orion spur of our milky way galaxy.

Evolving on a ringed tropical planet covered in rainforests and geographically teeming with waterfalls. The Thau'lix evolutionary speaking, are also a form of plant native to their homeworld. Unlike the Nightwalkers who are as far removed from them as we are from the neotenous young of sponges. The Thau'lix are still very much a form of plant. Their lifecycle is split into two, the form you see here is derived from walking seeds, given hundreds of years of speciation to convergently evolve an animal-like form, an almost angelic one at that. They graciously soar their entire planet on 2 pairs of wings, foraging for fruits, leaves, and small prey, both of the walking seed and true "animal" varieties. And eventually for suitable ground to settle down and re-emerge into their adult form as a fast-growing trees that branch like chandeliers with Arcuate-veined Truncate-shaped leaves that take on a familiar green pigment.

It will take 100,000 years for us to make contact with the Thau'lix. By that time Our governments, cultures, languages and religions will have become near unrecognizable from what they are today. We will have explored and settled across thousands of worlds like home, all across the entire orion spur, we will have mastered our little corner of space. While the Thau'lix would be in their own paleolithic age, living in airbound nomadic hunter-gatherer communities. We are to them what the Eldest Sophonts were to the Nightwalkers, We will be their godlike benefactors. And they will see us as gods, deities of the night sky gifted with eternal youth, divine seedlings that will never age and sprout into our own trees. We would come to share with them bits and pieces of our culture and way of life that will change their future. We will become friends for centuries, and without warning we will disappear. We will tell them to keep the memories of us in their hearts, Carry on our torch, and to not shout into the cold quiet night, lest they hear them too.

Just like that they will be alone once more, we will be remembered as their gods, and only as gods, for at least a while. They will have to overcome their own problems and revelations. They'll learn not to fall for leaders with big claims and bigger desires for absolute power. They will explore the rest of the galaxy only to find that everything trailing their home planet is seemingly missing of habitable worlds, a great hole of planet-bound colonization. And they will eventually learn about the true nature of their old gods, and have to come to terms that the Ancient Alien conspiracy theorists were fucking right all along.

The Thau'lix will carry the torch, the spirit, of humanity. Not us, not anymore.

[sluggoonthestreet]

Reggie has pre-prepared for Chonky Squirrel Winter.

[psykopaths]

[clara-scintilla]

Thief

[izzylovescheesecake]

WATERCOLOR ARRRTTTT AHHHH🌳🌳🌳🌳

practicing coloring🤭

[flowercrowncrip]

I really wanted to go for a walk in the woods today but my disability said no. I painted this little woodland scene so I could still be there in spirit

ID: a watercolour painting of a woodland scene with lots of green trees and plants overhanging a river. The colours are warm and white orbs hang in the air. /end ID

[yannleguen]

Sketch in my garden

🇫🇷 Quelques dessins dans mon jardin d'un arbuste qui fleurit avant l'apparition des feuilles. Stylo-plume sur carnet A5.

🇬🇧 Some drawings in my garden of a shrub that flowers before the leaves appear. Fountain pen on A5 sketchbook

[moonbeampixels]

Under a purple sky ✨

[petersolarz]

My Guardian © Peter Solarz

[lucigianart]

Winter Trees I & II - 2024

Watercolors & mica on transparent Yupo paper.

I wanted to create a few winter-themed abstract paintings for the holiday season. I’m pleased with how this turned out. Trees are my absolute favorite things to paint! I went a little crazy with the mica paints on both this and the second one. 🙃

[probablytree]

the usual

[razorberries-art]

✨Tree of Orbit✨ Watercolor & ink painting

[booksmyquerencia]

September 24, 2024 Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. – Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

[flowercrowncrip]

ID: digital art in shades of green showing a twisted tree in an ancient stunted woodland emerging out of moss covered boulders. One boulder has a spiral pattern of exposed stone in the moss where stone is. /end ID

This ancient stunted oak woodland is one of the most magical places I’ve ever experienced. Due to disability I’ll never return, but it will always be a place that is personally significant to me.