Artists have created new healing drawings on the trunks of injured trees in Moscow

Mospriroda summed up the results of the seventh season of the ParkArt annual environmental campaign to save green spaces. The project covered natural areas and urban areas of the capital.

“During the action from June to August of this year, 50 new “fairytale portals” appeared in Moscow, including 24 drawings on city sites in different parts of Moscow. The project involved 56 volunteer artists who created amazing healing acrylic paintings on treated and cured trees. In addition, about 10 healing drawings created in previous years have been restored by the authors,” Mospriroda said on its website.

"ParkArt" is an environmental campaign to protect trees with the help of art, which has been held in Moscow since 2016
In addition to performing an aesthetic function, drawings help prolong the life of a weakened and damaged tree.

“Volunteer artists paint only on those trees on which, under the influence of external factors, frost cracks, hollows, wounds, and bare sections of the trunk have formed. The paintings are painted with waterproof acrylic paints. They are completely safe, do not violate the structure of the tree, create an additional protective layer that prevents moisture, fungi, bacteria and pests from entering the wound and does not allow the tree to collapse further,” Mospriroda said.

Before applying the drawing, the tree is prepared according to the technology developed by the specialists of this environmental institution.

Over the years of the project's existence, more than 150 volunteer artists have made about 250 drawings, including landscapes, images of animals, birds and reproductions of works by famous artists. As a result, cracks and wounds on trees heal, and in some cases completely heal, Mospriroda notes.