It's spring and time to think about planting... and I've been thinking about planting trees! I'm making a t-shirt and poster design for ReTree Steamboat again. This is a program that I really love that's put on by the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. There will be a tree potting event in May and planting will be in the fall. For the past couple of years we planted trees along the Yampa River to help protect the river channel and restore animal habitat. If you are in Steamboat, I hope you can volunteer and come plant trees with the community!
The t-shirt will be printed with light colored ink, so I used white on black paper for my print.
And I got to paint with color for the poster. I like this brown version because it's a little different for me. I don't use colored paper for printmaking very often, but brown, blue and green are the perfect earth and tree colors. Take action, plant a tree!
