Norm Magnusson's "Decorating Nature" series - selects
Norm Magnusson's "Decorating Nature" series The "Decorating Nature" series. My little "interventions with nature". I did the very first one of them while on vacation in India 16 years ago; I couldn't find any watercolor paper so I painted on leaves. Most all of them, like those originals, are watercolor on leaf or bark or stone or what have you. In a few of them, I used acrylic paint. Here below is a selection of the 201 of these I have completed over those years. fig. 200: leaf of the zelkova chameleon tree fig. 196: leaf of the Roygbiv tree in autumn. fig. 191: linden leaf covered with colorful "tinkerbell" mildew fig. 186: Sycamore Anthracnose is an alluring but dangerous fungus. fig. 184: after the hurricane, exotic oak apples fell to earth. fig. 183: tulip tree leaf with advanced blue-tosis. fig. 163: leaves of the "brighter horizons" tree stand out amidst autumnal decay fig. 160: a colorful attempt to hide the ravages...