If you like to go “Plein Air light” oilpastels are the medium of choice. This little colour study of the autumn forest was done on a piece of paper with a thick cover of oil paint on it. I liked to use this type of coloured support because there will be no “white spots” peaking [...]
Drawing leaves can be a challenge. However it is possible to ease the trouble a bit. I have put up little tutorial “How to draw leaves” which explains how to draw simple leaves in various positions. I did two short videos as well to illustrate how simple leaves can be drawn by using the very [...]
This is an older plein air landscape study in charcoal. A soft eraser was very helpful to work out the field and grass in the foreground. As to the trees I kept things pretty much undefined in a more or less impressionistic manner.
Temperatures get chilly these days. After a longer pause I continued to draw in the apple tree orchard. It took some time to pick up the thread again and to find my way through the many labyrinth of wrinkles, plateaus and valleys that the apple tree in front had build in many years of growth. [...]
Weblog about drawing trees, sketching in forests by Martin Stankewitz,Edition Handdruck,Maulbronn
mail: e-post(at)edition-handdruck(dot)de
"It is no exaggerated praise to call a tree the grandest and most beautiful of all productions on the earth."
Reverend William Gilpin
Observations on Forest Scenery
Artist notesDu durchsuchst derzeit das How to draw a tree Archiv nach dem Monat October 2010.
Forest Postcards
Tree Poster
Tree landscape
How to draw a tree- Publication on Blurb
Forest diary- the sketchbook re-print on Blurb
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