I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
Andrew Wyeth
Since my high school years, I have preferred winter trees a a subject for drawing. With the ragweed season out of control, I cannot go outdoors to draw trees from direct observation, so I continue to sketch them from my imagination, a practice that I always fear leaves caricature or cartoony effects. Soon the wretched ragweed will die, the fall colors will change, leaves will disappear and once again I will be able to look directly at my subjects and attempt to draw them as they really are.
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Tags: Andrew Wyeth, drawing, sketching, vignette
Recollections 54 The Art of David Tripp 
October 16, 2015 at 1:50 pm |
Do you ever draw from a photograph?
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October 20, 2015 at 7:20 am |
Hi Linda. I generally draw from the real subjects, though I sometimes watercolor from photographs. Unfortunately, these recent trees are from out of my memory, and I fear that drawing that way will yield up cartoons instead of what is really out there. That is the main reason that I generally draw from what I can see in 3-D. Once I can go outdoors without sneezing and blowing my nose from the ragweed mess, I’m confident that I’ll draw better trees!
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October 20, 2015 at 5:25 am |
Lovely sketch.
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October 20, 2015 at 7:25 am |
Thank you! I’m getting excited about this new direction.
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