I felt to brush up on my drawing skills. It had been a while. Joining a Plant Life Drawing class I found myself diving into the detail and enjoying the slowing down that drawing can bring to the mind and nervous system.
Over an eight week period, each week I took a fallen leaf specimen from a nearby park and sat with it, looked, and then really looked at the negative spaces and tonal values.
The earthy pallete was created due to my late arriving at class finding all the other colours for plants i.e. greens, were being used by my classmates. I made a spontaneous creative decision to go with brown, soft greys and ochre. I liked it so much I decided to continue with this theme across six drawings in this series.
This drawing is on A4 216gsm professional art paper, unframed.
The colour pencils are from the beautiful Swiss made Caran d'Ache brand in the Luminance range.
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As you can see from the images, I am suggesting this piece could form part of a studio hanging with other complementary drawings from this series which you can view in my profile.
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This work on paper is listed unframed, however you can easily choose the expert framing offered by Bluethumb. I feel this piece would look beautiful in the simplicity of a black or natural light timber frame.
Thank you for taking the time to view my art.
MBP