| I’ve always wanted to use that title……… Wow, I can’t believe I went through the whole month of December without one post! I’ve been just too damn busy. I have been fitting some art in – I have just finished 4 new scratchboards – but I haven’t done much sketching. I found a folder in one of my drawers that was labeled “sketches.” In it were a lot of loose pages with drawings and many of them were of my favorite subject, trees. I like them because they’re very good at standing still! I also like their form and structure and how the simple process of growth yields so many unique results. Many of these are from long ago. Some I remember and some I don’t. This first one is from a farm in Connecticut. I was hosting a workshop and had finished my part and was killing time while the class went on. This beautiful white pine growing over the pole barn caught my eye. |  |
Camperdown elms are a unique tree. I believe they are created by grafting. Once long ago someone planted a lot of them around the Gardner area. Someone told me they called them umbrella trees. I just like them because of all the zigs and zags in their form.
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Apple trees are another species with interesting form, though one that’s often manipulated by man by pruning. When they go wild, though, they can get real crazy.
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