eight/ ten

i think some interesting things happened; i used some new colours. & a few other things -- my mind is too tired to find the proper words.

plus i'm cranky because blogger keeps messing with my images. i can't get the colours right, i don't know what i'm doing wrong. there's more green on my actual sketchbook-pages, and more depth. the landscapes look so very flat on these pictures.

well, maybe they just are. flat.

the first drawing is tiny; the size of a matchstickbox. it's the one i did first & i think i like it best (even though you can't tell that there's different kinds of trees in the picture. the second drawing is less of a mess in that area). the second one is interesting (to me anyway) because i started with a layer, a thin layer, of a brown ochre-ish colour and then used all kinds of greens (& ash grey in the sky) on top of that. i thought that gave it a bit more life and depth. but i'm not so sure about that anymore. i will look at them with (hopefully) fresh eyes tomorrow. 

i again do not like the foregrounds. i don't know what i want with them. maybe cut the big area in front of the trees off & give more space to the trees. i do like trees.

maybe i will go out tomorrow, find my own bunch of trees to draw. 

i do live in a beautiful area. lots of trees and heather fields. 

lots of pine trees.

i love pine trees.

i'll make pictures.

i also want to find a way, pay more attention to that area where the trees seem to dissolve into air. when i look at trees i never know where they really end, where the sky actually begins. i want softer edges. no edges. especially when the light is low, like it is right now, the interaction between air and tree can't be translated by any kind of distinctive edge.

(oh, the pictures are bad, i really don't want to share these. i'll just keep them very small, maybe they look better when they're very small.)

(and yes i was again inspired by a painting of charles warren eaton.

i try to keep them far away -- to keep them tiny, so i only see value and shape. that helped today. then again, i really like what is happening in the background. the subtle areas where there's light shining through trees, or where there's a tiny hint of another colour because there's still some disappearing light left.)