On the edge of the Forest

by Jean Walker

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24.000 x 30.000 inches

Title

On the edge of the Forest

Artist

Jean Walker

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

Coniferous forests are made up mainly of cone-bearing or coniferous trees, such as spruces, hemlocks, pines and firs. The leaves of these trees are either small and needle-like or scale-like and most stay green all year around (evergreen). All are softwoods able to survive cold termperatures and acidic soil.
Coniferous forests are found mainly in the northern hemisphere, although some are found in the southern hemisphere.

The northern coniferous forests are called taiga or boreal forests. They cover vast areas of North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and range across northern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and across Asia through Siberia and Mongolia to northern China and northern Japan.

Short summers and long winters
Coniferous trees thrive where summers are short and cool and winters long and harsh, with heavy snowfall that can last as long as 6 months. The needle-like leaves have a waxy outer coat which prevents water loss in freezing weather and the branches are soft and flexible and usually point downwards, so that snow slides off them. Larches are one example of a coniferous tree found in some of the coldest regions. Unusually for coniferous trees they are deciduous, that is they shed their leaves in winter.
Coniferous trees such as cypresses, cedars and redwoods are found in warmer regions.


On the edge of the forest is a a painting that i did as a demonstration piece for a local art group, it was painted from a photograph of a scene of Cannock Chase, I thought it looked a little boring so I added a stream where the pathway should be and some rocks along the banks...

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