Back to the West Coast

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Well its been a long time coming but the day is finally here.  Deb is headed to California for Graduate school.  Cyan has logged several traveling hours this past month and is ready for the flight and the adventures  that will follow.  Deb will be working on a new body of work and on a new & fun surface.  

Attention Tree lovers: In this post you can see several of the reference photos deb will be using and links to more fun tree photos.  Please do not distribute these photos but feel free to print the images for personal use.  Most of these images are of Deb's Midwest Friends, check back for new tree friends and a plethora of Palms.

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Grass Wheat
Tree Silhouettes
Leave Shadows
Sycamore 1
Ohio Tree
Forest sapling
Ohio tree 1
Naked Sycamore
Sycamore 2
Winter Sycamore
Sycamore Leaves
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Ohio Tree 3
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New Adventures

Deb is off to California again, this time she will be returning as a graduate student. She was accepted to Claremont Graduate University for the past two years. She ran into a beautiful baby bump last year and now is on her way to Graduate school this summer. There is a three hundred year old oak right in the near by botanical garden that I'm sure she will make friends with.

Amongthemystery.com

New website! My work is a secret world hidden among the gathering dusk under the trees. Cool evenings after a hot day or a quiet place in the afternoon... www.deborahfaithcorrea.com

West Coast Trip

Link to View Tree Prints

Link to Purchase Prints

Link to the Tree Story

Deb has printed 9 sets of 25 drawings from her recent trip down the West Coast. You can view these silk screen prints here. Double click on the images to get a better view.
Link to View Tree Prints



We took over 5,000 photos and covered over 2,000 miles of landscape between Washington to California. Read about the story in sequence by looking for "The story continues..." Double click on the images to view larger images, find a few hidden details & surprises. (Start here)



Deb is selling limited edition prints on her website through Paypal. If you have any questions please contact her directly through email.
Link to Purchase Prints

One ending another begining

So before we sent out the prints, we hit a little bump. A baby bump! So there is going to be another Correa on the way. 4/5/2011 We just heard the little heart beating today (during our second check up). If Josh's dad has his way we will have a little baby girl...

A journey's end

Flying back to Ohio I reflected that a week ago I just beginning our 2,000 mile journey. Not only did we cover a lot of ground, but we also saw some amazing sights; the daily glimpse of the Cascade mountains in Seattle; the misty pine covered hills of Oregon where fog blotted out the border between land, sky and ocean; moss covered maples overhanging our road; gigantic trees dwarfing all who aspire to stand beside them; waves crashing on sheer cliffs; sea lions, elephant seals, ground squirrels and elk.. I saw firsthand how the abundance or lack of water, sun and wind can shape an environment, and I saw firsthand the amazing creativity of our Creator in the variety of organisms that make a home in every environment.

When I returned to Ohio I had a mountain of work to do; finishing drawings then printing each of my nine drawings 25 times. (That's 225+ prints all by hand!) I compiled the prints in a hanging installation for the Cultivating Growth show. The prints were hung in descending order from North to South. Thank you to all those who believed in me and pre-bought prints of the trees without seeing them. I hope you enjoy them even more knowing a little bit about them.

This trip encouraged me to pursue my creative goals. I gained confidence in my work and am currently applying to graduate school to get a Masters in Art. I am looking forward to many more road trips of this kind all over the US and eventually internationally!

I hope you enjoyed reading about our journey and most of all I hope you are encouraged to go have an adventure of your own! Thanks for reading :)

Content by Deborah Correa

Layout and design by Joshua Correa

All photos by Joshua & Deborah Correa

www.cultivatinggrowth.org 2010 show

Trees of Orange County

O.C. Tree tour

The next day Josh’s dad Danny took me on a private tour of the trees of Orange County. First on the list were Canyon Live Oaks. I had forgotten to charge the camera batteries so I missed the opportunity to take photos of these gnarly trees, but enjoyed seeing them. We visited two huge Moreton figs, both planted in the 1880’s. The Moreton fig at the Santa Barbara train station officially tops these two, however they were equally impressive. One was in front of a Catholic church and spread over the six lane street. The other stretched taller than the others. It grew on a side road in a neighborhood. The house it grew in front of had recently been torn down to make a park for the tree.

The remaining trees on my list were the Orange tree and palm tree. And after all the eucalyptus trees we had seen I still didn’t have good photos of one. We visited a small park, but we had to pay to go into so we just walked around the entrance then left. There was an orange grove there and some beautiful California sycamores. Danny took me to the circle in old town Orange where I photographed the orange and palms. In another park we saw some crazy twisting trees with no leaves. Their white mottled bark gleamed weirdly in the sun. I didn’t recognize these as sycamores until Josh categorized them as such. California sycamores are more angular then their Eastern counterparts. These must have been susceptible to a canker that causes some of them to lose their leaves.

The journey's end...