Moving outside excites me as I love nature and have always been passionate about painting outdoors.
Trees are a favourite subject and I enjoyed this assignment.
I found it difficult to achieve the lush dense feeling of the tree and reflecting on these sketches I had another go at in a larger format.
Trees are a favourite subject and I enjoyed this assignment.
With this sketch I felt that the hard scribbled lines of the charcoal, although rough and unfinished did more than the careful studies of the previous - but I guess its the process that leads to understanding and coming to grips with essence and not trying to just draw the thing.
And then:
I honestly felt a leap of joy. Its the tree. Its the tree - the feeling and essence of the tree, not just the lines on the paper of what maybe should be the tree, but the beautiful old thing growing on a rock in a park in China. I resisted the urge to finish it and the composition might be unbalanced but I felt it was enough.
I grew an inch today.
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