Project overview
The tree that raised him
Drawn on a hiking trip upstate, where one particular pine had clearly been hugged before. The guardian is red because the forest that day was impossibly green, and someone had to argue.
- Medium: archival giclée, 12 pigment inks
- Sizes: 8×10" to 24×32", framed or unframed
- Edition: open, signed by the studio
Approach
Lime and red, turned all the way up
The boldest palette in the shop: lime ground, pine green, guardian red. The fur is built from overlapping scallops — forty-seven of them, counted during one long studio debate about whether forty-eight would be showing off.
Classrooms claimed it first (an art teacher in Queens has the 24×32"), then living rooms with plants followed. It is the extrovert of the collection and knows it.
Results
Shortlisted for a children's book cover, adopted as the mascot of a Vermont summer camp, and the piece most likely to be given to someone "who needs a hug".
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