Winter tree silhouettes / profile images in high contrast

[pigwot]

Is anyone aware of a source for high quality, high contrast, ‘accurate’ winter tree silhouettes?
In my retirement I am doing a lot of wood turning. I would like to use my laser to create accurate images of the species of wood out of which I am turning these items on some of the pieces.
(Photos of some of my work)

 

[ATH]

Cool idea. I have been playing with laser engraver a little. Made a coaster set with 8 different kinds of woods and each had the tree's leaf and most also had either flower, fruit, or twig as well.

I don't know of any good sources...I thought Woody Plants in Winter by Core and Ammons had those, but I just looked and it doesn't. I coulda swore one of my books had those pics, but just looked through them and don't see any.

If you can find an open grown specimen, get a picture and any half decent photo editing software will be able to remove the background and convert to a pencil sketch. Or...use the "Trace Image" feature in LightBurn. Now you don't need to worry about copyrighted material either.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

@pigwot

Wonderful work!

I’ll look at my books to see what’s there for line drawings

 

[flushcut]

Sounds like a new hobby in the making. Good camera, editing software, travel funds.

 

[SeanRuel]

I've been looking for the same thing for similar reasons, mixed luck. I have images of maybe 10 species silhouettes somewhere on an old hard drive, will share if i find

 

[ATH]

I knew I had a book with silhouettes! It was at the shop not at home on bookshelf.

Trees of the Northern United States and Canada by John Laird Farrar.

Example

 

[pigwot]

Yes! Thank you!!

 

[ATH]

I wasn't smart enough to take a picture of the finished product...but here are some of the test runs I did on scrap wood (the real ones matched the species to the wood):

 

[evo]

Who else buys field guides for the art?

Amazon.com

 

[Tuebor]

I have this book, first published in 1969. Smith was a landscape architect. Not sure how accurate her renditions of winter trees are. White oak example;

 

[Tuebor]

Here is her version of Black Walnut to compare to ATH's above:

 

[pigwot]

ATH, and Tuebor,
I appreciate all the help.

Here is a preview of the ‘interactive’ piece I called “Tree Tops”, and some of my other pieces. Art show gets installed on May 18th.

 

[pigwot]

Curious about this book. Anyone have a copy?