Planting the Thicket

Somehow the 58 model trees that consumed my entire satellite workbench needed to condense onto a piece of plywood barely 30 cm long. Of course, there were holes for all of them, marked by little flags, now all but lost in the grass. The flags themselves had become grassy, thanks to the uncaring nature of […]

Thicket Twigs and Leaves

Nowadays, the cool kids are all using static grass to make the tiny lesser branches and twigs for their trees. As with my leather tie and Adidas bag, I tried to copy them, but the look fell flat. My static grass mostly missed the mark, and the few fibres that connected clung to the armature […]

Toward Pine Trees

The mighty White Pine is a kingpin of Ontario history. So I was chuffed to discover several scrawny ones amongst the Thicket. Being crowded by poplar and birch and some unidentifiable scraggly trees, most of them have branches on one side and several have branches only at their crowns. They would make poor Christmas trees, […]

Thicket Progress

Armatures for the thicket are complete for now. There were fewer discards than I anticipated, and so, I may need to demote some of the first row trees to the second row as I start planting if the thicket comes out too diaphanous. Once the armatures were formed and twisted into tree shapes, I coated […]