koukla carolyn

tree with leaves

April 23rd, 2006 | Category: Pen and Ink

All winter I’ve been drawing skeletons of trees which has been very instructive. I’ve learned more about the structure of how they grow. Now that spring is here I have a chance to draw the leaves too. I took a pen and ink class at the Worcester Art Museum about five years ago and the teacher spent a whole session discussing how to draw trees and leaves in pen and ink. He used a lot of examples from Claudia Nice. I wish I had that book to refer to now that I want to draw them. When I’m at school I tend to draw a lot of trees because I think the trees are the only beautiful thing on campus (for the most part). I have about a month left there—my goal is to get better with foliage.

4 Comments so far

  1. Starr April 26th, 2006 4:37 pm

    Your trees are wonderful. Beautiful work with line and such patience! I always fink out on trees…

  2. koukla April 27th, 2006 7:15 am

    Thanks Starr. I actually did the leaves pretty quickly because I was in a rush to get to class!

  3. Anastasia May 3rd, 2006 6:48 am

    I love this – what medium are u using – ink??
    wonderful!

  4. koukla May 3rd, 2006 8:53 pm

    Anastasia, I used pitt artists pens in sanguine for this sketch.

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