hillsides I created by brushing the grass tips with diluted white
glue and then sprinkling on fine yellow ground foam. The sprin-
kling lays the yellow foam (or green, for Miner’s Lettuce) down
a bit thick, but going back carefully with a vacuum thins the
“flowers” and “leaves” out into a more natural pattern.
Cow Pasture
Cows are nature’s lawn mowers, so I kept the static grass in this
area to a minimum. Given the heavy rains in spring and the few
15
15: Cows seek shelter from the warm California sun
under the shade of a solitary oak tree. More ground
foam and very little static grass created the effect
of shorn pastureland, and rubbing fingers around
the pond exposed the dirt and smoothed down the
granules for a baked-mud effect.
