I've really taken a like to drawing trees like this - that cartoony style just appeals to me for some reason.

This picture is like some photograph compositions I've seen before where someone took 4 pictures of the same tree during the different seasons of the year. This is my own twist on that idea. Plus I kind of like creating seasons that we really don't get here in Souther California that much - bright pink trees in the spring, bright red trees in autumn, and bare snowy trees in winter. We pretty much get to see trees as they're represented here in the upper right square - hot, green, summer.

I also enjoyed this paper a lot. I think it was actually made by pressing thin sheets of cork across some kind of paper, because not only did it look like cork, but it felt soft and slightly spongy like cork does. I drew in a picture "frame" around the edges, but all the brown background that remains is the actual color and texture of the paper.