Tag Archives: trees
unfinished tree sketches
I was doing several things around Telegraph Hill and started three different tree sketches but for various reasons didn’t manage to finish any of them. I’ll post them anyway, just so you can see some stuff I was experimenting with. … Continue reading
willow tree
Today’s return to landscape sketching. Wow, I feel so out of practice drawing trees! (Click here for some earlier work for my landscape drawing project.) I’ve never drawn a willow tree for more than a few minutes (this took an … Continue reading
bird brain
This morning I was planning to draw one of the trees in our local park. But I got chatting with a neighbour on the walk toward the studio and he walked me almost all the way there, and I only … Continue reading
plane tree, and a toga party
I love plane trees, and how the little balls on them look like musical notes. I wonder if anyone has ever taken photos of plane tree branches and superimposed the balls on a musical staff to discover what kind of … Continue reading
pollarded tree on telegraph hill
I think this must be the longest stretch of time I haven’t posted something on the blog when I wasn’t actually on holiday, but it’s been a bit nuts here. Lots of projects on the go. It can get so … Continue reading
pollarded nubbin
Now the weather’s turned a bit more mild, I’m trying to get back into my landscape drawings. Here’s a close-up of a tree near my house. I must go up to Telegraph Hill and draw some of the rows of … Continue reading
good news and… oh, bother
First, the good stuff! Morris the Mankiest Monster is Scholastic Book Club’s Book of the Week! (Which is rather spiffing of them as Scholastic don’t even publish it.) You can get it through them for the amazing price of £3.99. … Continue reading
drawing trees – in conversation with eddie smith
Last night I interviewed one of my best friends, Eddie Smith, about a project he’s been working on all year, drawing trees at London’s Nunhead Cemetery. Nunhead’s one of the Magnificent Seven of London’s cemeteries and maintained in a state … Continue reading
friday in black and white
I found today’s sketch in Greenwich Park terribly frustrating. I’ve been drawing a lot of close-ups of trees, which is pretty much the same thing as doing a life drawing of a person. But I’ve never been good at landscape … Continue reading
remembering the fallen in greenwich
Today wasn’t as bitterly cold as yesterday, and I went down into one of the valleys of Greenwich Park in hopes it might be a bit more sheltered from the cold. The paths around Queen Elizabeth’s Oak were treacherously icy, … Continue reading
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