Today’s 64 Million Artists January challenge is called find a tree and is a celebration of our wooded friends. I’m going to create this tree using collage, ink and pastel. I find this combination of materials very easy too use.
The matt qualities of pastel work well with ink and collage elements add a frame to the work.
I like drawing trees. This hasn’t always been the case. They can be difficult to understand and your drawings can look very unrealistic. I’ve learnt over the tears to really study trees and I have found they all have an interesting soy to tell.
The tree in today’s image is near to the local secondary school that I attended. The tree has a hollowed out section from where a bow fell off. As kids we used to climb the tree and sit in the opening.
The local council has stopped this behaviour by blocking the hole with wire mesh. I hadn’t realised but the tree is a twin with two sections of branches feeding into one trunk. It’s an amazing structure.
