In the distance of the last tree picture was a scary rickety looking tree. I feel that work is a prequel to this one – it was where I was originally heading anyway. I’ve called it The Hollow Tree because as you can see from the pictures it is hollow but still alive! At some point it was burnt, so the inside is blackened, there are holes in it…but somehow it still lives. A proper zombie tree.
It’s my favourite tree in the world, I mean it’s even starred on Instagram…
I have become obsessed with this tree, I have visited it four times now and I suspect I will go back for more. Something keeps pulling me back.
The first time was the conte and watercolour piece at the top/bottom. A two stage process as is traditional with those pieces and the crappy weather we’ve been having that slows drying to a crawl – I did the watercolour one day then came back the next to finish it. It got rather cold and I was supposed to be somewhere else, so it ended up rather dynamic and almost Van Gogh-like. Hold that thought.
The second was a quill drawing with one of my newly home-made quills, with watercolour and a little brush and ink. The original idea was to leave the spindly tree completely white, but that looked really odd so I shaded it in with a brush.
I took some photos of the tree as well:
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