tree

Looking under the tree

Post-job interview mindful drawing time!

Acrylic painting of our back yard tree on a sunny day with the wind blowing.

I was working on nighttime or dark themes and trying to get more contrast than the last piece I made. I wanted to also work on atmospheric perspective and depth with the clouds. Overall, I am pretty happy with the outcome. This is from a reference picture my husband took from our backyard. Painted with Rebelle 6 Pro.

Bearskullpine A new bigger version of my earlier drawing In the Finnish mythology killing of a bear was followed by a great feast in honour of the bear (peijaiset), where a substantial part of the celebrations consisted of convincing the bear's spirit that it had died accidentally and hadn't been murdered. Afterwards, the bear's skull was hung high upon a pine tree so its spirit could re-enter the heavens. The bones of the bear were then buried under the pine.

It's hot. No air in school, so we took to the shade and drew trees. I drew students drawing trees.

Needing to get out of the house, I walked down the street to the antique shops that are right around the corner from my house and did some urban sketching.

What's in front of me. I had to use more than one color because it just didn't feel right only brown, or only green.

Eyes meeting trees, and a hint of surveillance.

Five 40 foot + trees went down around my house back in October 2012. Since 1994 I have lost as many trees on my property as there had been present when I bought the house. Sheesh.

Draw series of pines at Hailuoto island. There is many beautifull pines. Not a tall but quite thick and hardy stubborn trees

Trees are kind of fun to draw, that's why I did another one over my lunch break.

I've been working on portraits so much that it's taken up most of my drawing time. I miss the simpler things like trees and mountains so today at lunch I drew this tree.

I’ve been working on color lately. I figured a tree was a good subject.

a little detail of an illustration in progress.

Using Procreate

Play of shadows & light at leaves

Drawing i did for artswap

Two old trees.Illustration from Singer/songwriter Juha Tapios song Kaksi Puuta. Story of couple who are like two old trees. Both standing alone but sametime weave roots together. .

18x24 watercolor paper, technical pen and probably pastel pencil or just regular pencil blended with a q-tip. This was done for a friend who owned a wine and spirits shop, so I guess it's a vine. Or a tree. Whichever....

Pencil on 18x24 illustration board. 1980's

Quick sketch of owl in snowy trees

I had fun playing with some new markers last night.

There's a phone in Graham's Up the Tree and kids will have no clue what they're looking at or how those "buttons" work.

Looking out at that crazy Graham up in the tree!

Graham's Up the Tree! ("and there's nowhere else he can go!") - my 4 year old ran around the house for weeks misquoting the story with his own interpretation of an Australian accent. Calling it out over, and over, and over again.

"Billy gets there last, wiggles up a spot..." from the Graham's Up the Tree book. I grew to love these kids after drawing them so much. They sort of became real to me.