Pick ONE aspect at a time to explore - here I was looking at how many buds there are, and where they are in space. Creating a map of the buds and flowers. This will help with following drawings, and observation of growth. To clarify what you are seeing when there are loads of intwined branches, move your head to determine which buds are on the same branch or on a branch behind or in front..oR if it is windy you can use the wind to show you which are separate branches. And today I started to look at another tree in the garden. I started with the WHOLE rather than details, because it was far away, and I was interested in how it looks as a whole. Sometimes you find a tree that represents how you feel - stick with it, and explore how it has grown, and is growing. I am not sure why, but this apple that has been pruned badly for years and years really moves me. I am interested in how it has coped with having it branches chopped too far back each year. It is in my childhood home so I have known it all my life. It has stopped producing fruit now. I wonder if it is natural ageing, or a reaction to wrong pruning? Drawing 3. You can see 4 distinct zones: the trunk, then angular chunky branches, then curly thinner branches, then the new growth shooting up to the sky. The angular zone. The new growth.
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AuthorAngie Brew is an artist, researcher and drawing teacher. She holds a Drawing MA with distinction from Camberwell College of Art, UAL, London. For her doctorate she worked in the Drawing & Cognition Project, Camberwell, researching enactive observational drawing methods and pedagogy. This resulted in a new cognitively-informed approach called 'Drawing Growth', synchronising eye and hand. Her art practice explores drawing for well-being, and close observational drawing of growth processes. She is artist in residence in a community greenhouse in Brixton, London, where she leads a collaborative Drawing Growth project and a weekly drawing club. ArchivesCategories |