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watercolor painting in purples and blues of dark fir trees in the foreground and, lighter, ridgelines behind them and above, a clouded grayblue sky. white spots on the image that blot out the color are where raindrops fell during the painting process.

Residency Log, Andrews Experimental Forest

Claire Giordano
Visiting Artist (2019)
Five watercolor paintings of tree trunks in blues and greens and yellow and purple.
The hand of the artist painting a watercolor image of a creek. On her hand rests a brown, orange, and black California Tortoiseshell butterfly.
A triptych- three watercolor paintings looking up through forest canopy gaps. Dark tree trunks and branches encircle an open gray-purple clouded sky
close up view of a multicolored watercolor painting of tree trunks with smears and color bleeds where raindrops fell through the canopy or off the branches and landed on the paper.
three watercolor illustration with notations. two are studies of the cut ends of logs with moss growing on top, one is of a manmade flag in pink marking a site in green forest understory.
seven watercolor paintings in purple and gray and green and blue of the changing colors in the forest as a storm passed through. white spots and smears in the color indicate where rain fell on the paper.
a watercolor painting in greens on white of the shadow of fronds of a sword fern
watercolor painting in greens and blues on white of the shadows made by a pacific yew branch as the sun shifted and it moved in the wind. darker image in foreground, lighter echo in background
watercolor painting in purples and blues of the branch of a hemlock tree with moss trailing below.
watercolor painting in purple and gray with white splotches of every shape where raindrops landed and dispersed the color
watercolor painting in green and blue and gray with white splotches of every shape where raindrops landed and dispersed the color. gives a vague impression of a green ridgeline in front of a blue-gray cloudy sky
Watercolor painting in purple and blue and grays of a dark silhouetted treeline in the foreground, a distant lighter ridgeline in the background, and a smudgy blue purple clouded sky. white spots and smudges in color are where rain drops fell on the page.
watercolor illustration painting looking up a blue and white creek as it flows over brown gray rocks and between brown hillsides that carry green and brown conifer trees.
watercolor painting of the log decomposition site in green and brown and red and purple and blue. in the foreground, a mossy log lies in sections on the green forest floor, in the distance are smudgy tree trunks of different shape color and size.
watercolor illustration of a green lichen with notation reading Lobaria oregana, a nitrogen fixing lichen...
watercolor painting in smudgy brown and purple and blue and green of tree trunks at varying distances in the forest
watercolor painting of the view from a clearing off the 130 Road. green-treed purple and blue ridgeline in the foreground gives way to a lighter, smudgy green and blue ridgeline in front of a blue sky near filled with purple-gray clouds
watercolor painting in green and blue and red and yellow and brown and purple of tree trunks. on the right, raindrops have spread the dark purple color on one tree trunk into fractal shapes.
watercolor painting in light and dark green and purple, blue, and brown of a large tree trunk in the foreground and multiple smaller smudgy-colored trunks in the background. tree in the front has been here a while and seen some things.
watercolor illustration in green blue and brown of a few small trees growing out of the stump or remnants of a once-large living tree, with the notation "Cedar nurse log"
watercolor painting in blue, pink, purple, and light green of four white-speckled alder tree trunks
watercolor painting in purples and blues of dark fir trees in the foreground and, lighter, ridgelines behind them and above, a clouded grayblue sky. white spots on the image that blot out the color are where raindrops fell during the painting process.

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