#277 Tulip Tree #277 Women's T-Shirt

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I was walking through Johnson-Springview Park in Rocklin in October and noticed the yellow foliage of a Tulip Tree in the parking lot area. These trees are widely known by the common name tulip tree for their large flowers superficially resembling tulips. The tulip tree is sometimes referred to as tulip poplar or yellow poplar, and the wood simply as poplar, although Liriodendron is not closely related to the true poplars, but is more closely related to magnolia trees. The tree is also called canoewood, saddle-leaf tree, and white wood.

This 12" x 16" painting was done in transparent watercolor on Arches cold press paper

My search to find my biological family was the genesis of my journey into the world of art. When I finally found my birth family, at the age of 40, I was plunged into a new and very different family. On one occasion while talking with the father I had never known, I discovered that my great uncle was the renowned watercolorist Dong Kingman. Fatefully discovering a cheap watercolor paint set, and intrigued by my relationship with Kingman, I wondered if I had inherited any of his talent. This lingering question spurred me into trying to paint. My first challenge was deciding what subjects I would paint. As a fan of Van Gogh, and knowing that he painted images from his day to day life: houses, fields, people working, I decided to do the...