Today I try to explain a bit how I do the gouache sketches in my forest diary. Step1: It begins with the choice of place and the preparation of the sketchbook which I lay on the forest ground. I always have two clams which I attach to the top edges of the paper to avoid [...]
There is a new link on the blogroll named “Postcard from my walk“. This is a little project that some 14 people will participate in over the next 13 months. Each month we will try to put something what we see on our walks through landscape (or somewhere else) on a postcard and send it [...]
“Draw trees” by Norman Battershill is another cheap publication in my collection of books on drawing trees. The first publication was in 1980 and the paperback version I bought is from 2004. There is not much text in this book, but what a text! I would love to quote the first chapter “Making a start” [...]
Coming back to the place I had begun my last forest diary study in drizzling rain I found that an important part of my subject had been harvested. Somehow I regret that not much of the first steps was left in the final stage of this study, even though a bit of sun was a [...]
Cathy Gatland , artist and illustrator in South Africa, kindly pointed me to a drawing book with a very similar title as my own little pamphlet on tree drawing “How to draw trees” by Gregory Brown was published in June 1940 and was reprinted five times. The sixth impression was published in May 1944. I [...]
No hunting of Teddy bears! by editionhaBrowse more Hunting T-Shirts This is a case of applied tree drawing: The non teddy bear hunting T-shirt available fresh from the printer.
Weblog about drawing trees, sketching in forests by Martin Stankewitz,Edition Handdruck,Maulbronn
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"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 January 2011.
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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