coppertrees


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coppertrees
Age: 60
Joined: Feb 2008

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Copper Trees
Chinese Wrinkle Art

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A local artist in Oregon who hand crafts each sculpture using copper. Her surroundings and travels have inspired her to create trees of various species and sizes, each with its own distinctive character.

The roots of some wrap around stones or other natural materials gathered from across the Oregon landscape. Others are firmly planted in pots collected from many travels,throught the U.S. and Asia.

She started drawing at about five, encouraged by Grandparents, and spent quite a bit of time trying different subjects. School provided art classes, and it became more then a hobby.
Grandmothers taught their arts, which were many hand crafts arts from basket weaving to tatting hand arts almost lost in some places, Macramé’, leather braiding, pottery.

Studing with jewelry designers and working with gold, silver and stones, and gems, all the shinny bobbles, but still had limits at the time.

“The art of the tree is pure, no boundaries in their form, no color denied.”

“When I pick up the wire I feel the day and the twisting begins. I will sit it up and look at it, sometimes imagine sitting under it looking up to see what is there.”
It takes 100 hours to complete one tree, they grow in her hands sometimes they change shape from the original thought. What ever they take in shape, you see in Nature only greater.

The hard part is the leaves, working on new ideas every day to fill that order, but leaves are hard to twist. This takes the most time to make and is the assigning name of the tree, so can be very important since there is no color except copper.
The business was named after her Grandson and family name, Bodies Trees .

Art has always been a first Love and being inspired by so many has gone back to her art in all mediums.

All Origional art work can be purchased through the artist.

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Groups

coppertrees hosts 1 In The Beginning - Ancient Practices, A Fractal Energy Passion (2 Downloads a day), All things Egyptian, Art and Stories Made For Children, Back In Black ( sorry~NO PHOTOGRAPHY), Creative Cards and Sisters in Arms (feminine relationship described) and is a member of 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture , !* Dark Cabaret *!, * Painted Ladies *, Complex Simplicity of Art, ! 100% !, ! Inspired Art !, ! φThe Dreaming Treeφ !, **PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY**, **Wildlife-Appeal**, *A Beautiful Blur, *Alice in Wonderland*, *Avant-Garde Art*, A Fractal a Day Keeps the Doctor Away! -1 submission a day, Abstract Art, ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING, Abstract Realism, All Oregon USA, All Original Blends, All the Colors of the Rainbow, Altered Art - Collage and Assemblage, aqua, lime or indigo, Art By Bubble Hosts , ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL, Art in Math, Art Nouveau and the Arts & Crafts Movement, Artists of the Orient, Behind the Mask, BLACK XMAS, Bryce and Beyond - 2 per day, Bubblers' Weekly Challenge ~ Current Entry: Fountains, Challenge Café, Children-The Power of Raw Emotion , Collaboral Damage, Color Me a Rainbow (GREEN must include human or animal), Contemporary Professional Painters and Sculptors, Core [C.O.R.E], Creative souls -> * members do not submit (work chosen by host/s), Dark artists, dark art, Designers United, Digital Abstracts & Patterns, Digital Art Compilations (No Nudity Allowed), Dragon's Fire, Drawing Day, Ebony and Ivory, EMI - The Group, Fantasy Art, FEATURED ONLY, Fine Arts, First Things, Flame Apophysis, Flash Fiction, Fractal Art Frenzy, Fractal Perception (2 per day max please) , Friends of RedBubble, Gateways, Graphic Editing 101, HALLOWEEN, If it doesn't belong, Images & Ideas, Japanfluence, JUST WATERCOLOURS - 2 art in 24 hrs, Kimono Love, Layered with Texture, Light Of Love - Invite Only Group, Live, Love, Dream: , Made In Digital, Mandala, Masterpiece: Art, Mature Woman, Mixed Media, Mood & Ambi(e)nce - Strictly Photos / ( No need to enter images in the group for the challenges), Moody and Evocative (no nudes), Music Inspired Art (M.I.A) music links/lyrics required, Myths, Legends and Fairytales, Painters In Modern Times - TWO PER DAY, Paintings Modern and Beyond – PiMT, Parallel Dimensions, Pencil Drawing (2 per 24 hrs), Photo Manipulators, Photo-Zen - 100 pages, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Practising the Dark Arts, Psychedelic Art & Design *TAG YOUR IMAGE!*, Purple Passion Gallery. 2 per day , RB ALUMNI, Realist Traditional Art, Redbubble-EMI Art & Music Videos, Remodernist Painters' Group - 1/CALENDAR MONTH, Shades of Grey, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, Solo Exhibition, Spirit of the Native American, Spiritual Art, Splatter, Smudge, Smear & Drip! , Strictly Human Faces , Tarot: Map Of Consciousness, THE 500 TO 5000 VIEWINGS GROUP, The Art of 3D, The Art of Books, THE DIVINE FEMININE, The Graphic Room-Graphic and Digital Art, The Healing Journey, the Love of Eerie and Enchanting Artwork, The Scouts, THE SISTERHOOD, Twisted Tales, Unconventional Artistry - 3 per day, Underground USA, United States, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Video Montage Group, Visual Collaborations (No Writing), Water Media (Paintings by hand only), Witches, Wizards and Warlocks., Wolves in Art, Yellow Two (NO FLOWERS!), Your Magic Place (PLACES only!!), Zodiac, ~Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day~ and ♥HeART for Haiti.

Journal Entries

Features and a Challenge Win

Posted 2 days ago, 14 comments so far.

Update on Lynn 1/29/2010

Posted 11 days ago, 12 comments so far.

Fake Perfumes

Posted 12 days ago, 26 comments so far.

Good update 1/26/2010 11:30 pm pacific time

Posted 13 days ago, 19 comments so far.

11:31 PM Pacific time 1/25/2010 Lynn and Tammy update

Posted 14 days ago, 13 comments so far.

Update 3:13 PM for Lynn

Posted 15 days ago, 23 comments so far.

Reguarding Tammy and Lynn

Posted 15 days ago, 17 comments so far.

Have been Tagged

Posted 18 days ago, 7 comments so far.

Features January 22,2010

Posted 21 days ago, 13 comments so far.

Features Jan.18,2010

Posted about 1 month ago, 16 comments so far.

Writing

Bernard Lacoque

The Eyes, could not get away from this soul looking at me.

A Healing For Lynn and Tammy 11:00 am 1/25/2010

Speaking to the Sun / gathering more / I can hear a heartbeat / and blood racing.

Please Healing thoughts

we need all your thoughts and prayers for his recovery.

January 22-23,2010 Exhibit

HOST HULLABALOO celebrating Hosts

World with Closed Eyes

never to see / never to tell

Promoting Music and Art for Children

Make 2010 a childrens year instead of a year of taking away. / Is it not time to pay attention to the future? / Our Children are the Future

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