Since April 2009 I run a shop on Zazzle.com, a company that lets you produce many different customized products in print on demand. I always admired those designers and the work of artists or illustrators, what ever you may call them, featured on the Zazzle blog. There have been quite amazing and inspiring people interviewed [...]
I had offered my little pamphlet “How to draw a tree” with a small markup. Blurb however likes to kill small profits on the way to the bookmakers. The payout treshhold is nailed at €17,50. Before they issue a stoneage cheque they deduct their fee of € 4.- per cheque first. My profits of € [...]
This evening I discovered a stunning essay by Richard Hacken on the Germans and their woods : Into the imagined woods. Best of all it comes with a lot of interesting illustrations and Mr. Hacken definitely got it right!
Today I want to point out to some outstanding tree drawings by a German artist named Albrecht Rissler. It is ever surprising how many great artists are out there on the net and you stumble on them only by incident. (Thanks Katherine for that one!)Albrecht Rissler is born 1944 and made a career from self-taught [...]
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
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Forest Postcards
Tree Poster
Tree landscape
How to draw a tree- Publication on Blurb
Forest diary- the sketchbook re-print on Blurb