"The Taking Tree"

A Children's Book Illustration and a cautionary tale for little boys and ghouls.



_With apologies to Shel Silverstein for 13 days of Halloween_

[Maggiemae]

Did you take this photo of the real scene or the illustration? I love the word, 'cautionary' - it would make me want to read it!

[Louise & Ken]

@maggiemae I took this earlier this evening...then had a lot of play with the colouration & post processing. The finished project looked like a book illustration to me!

[Kevin Wallace]

Perfectly illustrated!!!! Wow!

[Annie D]

the tree has such character - it is certainly a talking tree
I adore this!

[Issi Bannerman]

Very cool image and caption. Nicely done Louise!

[Nick]

Ooh, great shot - very creepy looking.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

magical :)

[Chris K]

certainly looks spooky

[Brett]

Foreboding indeed, very nicely done!

[Shepherdman's Wife]

oooh, this looks spooky

[gloria jones]

Eerie, spooky shot

[J A Byrdlip]

Good shot and processing. As long as you don't try to illustrate Shel's "The Smoke Off" you okay.

[Louise & Ken]

@byrdlip hmmmmm...I do like a challenge... Must check that one out as I'm not familiar with it... For adults, perhaps?

[Pam Knowler]

Wonderfully spooky again!! It would make a great book illustration. Great processing!! Fav!

[Jerome]

very nice processing

[J A Byrdlip]

@Weezilou https://allpoetry.com/The-Smoke-Off

[Marnie]

That looks incredibly spooky and scary. Love it.

[Louise & Ken]

@byrdlip Well THAT just sent me off down a rabbit hole! I knew Shel Silverstein from my daughter's childhood books, but that wasn't in any of them! (It had the cadence of Casey at the Bat!)

[J A Byrdlip]

@Weezilou There is a recording that was made and played on "The Dr Demento Show" many times back in the 80's

:-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVfE_-ZJAxc&index=6&list=PLV4qUYmpXZ6rRCNrzzgtZ9vi6Oa8WeaA4

I think it is a great story from that era, especially as a novelty song.

He covered quit a bit of creative territory.

[Louise & Ken]

@byrdlip INdeed! And thanks!

[Saxa van Eijnsbergen]

Cool!