Late summer forest, oak and beech jungle
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The end of summer has come with some hot days, but autumn is near. The sound of falling acorns can be heard everywhere and the cobwebs glisten in the evening sun.
The growth of foliage on trees, undergrowth and grass is at its peak now. Each and every patch of soil seems to have done it’s job for this year. The clear transparent order of bare trunks and branches in winter has made place for a veritable jungle in green.
I try to do my sketches only with a minimal plan and prefer to play with the colours and forms as I find them. Not much thought about composition is necessary in the forest, also it is easy to neglect and change elements of the scenery.
I just put in patches of colours creating a pattern that finally weaves an image of a forest.The sketch is what has been there, but it is not a copy.
My thoughts go to poetry I am reading : John Burnside an English,German volume of poems called “an attempt about light”. I snatched a signed copy in one of the most “beautiful european bookshops”. Burnside is a remarkable author who evokes images and resonances from unknown places inside and yet unfolds his view of the world. I wonder whether his poems are realistic, more realistic than that what we see?
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on 8. September 2011
Martin,
The feel of fall is in the air here in New England also but, the sound of falling acorns is somewhat less apparent here thanks to Irene’s shaking many of them loose as she passed through. Those gouaches are getting pretty good. I’ll have to check out Burnside. Quite the bookstore. Thanks for the posts.
on 8. September 2011
Hello Kevin, first of all I hope you and your family were not affected by the hurricane. As to the gouaches I have noticed the same. I really do not consciously try to get “better”, but exercise does something. I was attracted to the Burnside book by the book cover, a beautiful Scottish landscape photograph..
Have a look here on amazon http://www.amazon.de/Versuch-%C3%BCber-das-Licht-Gedichte/dp/3446234969/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315503981&sr=8-1.
on 10. September 2011
Hi Martin,
Thanks for your concern, no problems here from Irene unless you count 5 days without electricity as a problem. I was tempted to say your gouaches were becoming more fluid but, then you might have thought I was going for a pun and, you would have been right. Seriously through your right exercise does bring something maybe facility or, hopefully brings facility but then facility or technique or whatever you want to call it is something to be acquired and gotten beyond. This is getting complicated and I’m probably out of my depth ” gotten beyond ” is a rather awkward phrase but anyway facility is a plateau on the journey not the end, if in fact the journey has an end. Wow, I better stop right here before I make a complete fool out of myself. I think I’ll blame it on the Austrian wine I’m drinking tonight. I can see why the photo got your attention.