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Published: 2010-12-22 16:57:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 16731; Favourites: 385; Downloads: 844
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Small pencil drawing, 6x7.5" on Strathmore 80lb paper. It's been a long time since I've worked traditionally... I miss it.
My foliage kinda sucks though.
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I think that this would look amazing as a stone carving, about locket sized.
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I don't exactly know why but I am smitten by this sketch. I love the bones, the smoke, how the tree goes beyond the border. I love it all :c)
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i love how you shaded the tree 
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I keep seeing the image of a horse, where the hanging lamp/burner is it's pupil, the far right branch of the tree is it's ear, and it's looking to our left...
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i see what youre talking about
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Yay! It's not just me and my squishy, human brain.
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i mean, its there XD but i didnt pick it out til you said something.
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Trees are great! See several dryads in there. Nice lamp.
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For all that there are bleached bones and bare-branched, knobbly trees, this is really registering as peaceful and quietly beautiful to me. Very elegant.
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Simple and beautiful. I like this your cross-hatch technique you're using.
But what I really love is the vigil lights you hang from places in these pictures. They're very familiar to me (since they're common in Eastern Orthodox churches: we call them ฮบฮฑฮฝฯฮฎฮปฮนฮฑ) and therefore very evocative. I think they're among the elements that made me connect to your work.
As for the foliage, I don't think its problem is that it sucks. 
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I wonder if your religious connection makes you interpret them differently than I do. Obviously I've appropriated them for my own uses, but for me they're quite ominous and funerary.
Thanks for the advice with the foliage--I think you're right! I need to be more deliberate about it.
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I'm personally not religious, but it's still a cultural connection. I've worked in churches (my mother is an iconographer and mural painter, and I help her out sometimes), hence the familiarity. But I could also see them as funerary, although probably not ominous, because we also place such lights in graves: I'll always light one when I visit my grandparent's graves, for example, and I associate that with a positive feeling. Greek cemeteries at night are filled with such small lights; you could almost imagine them as lingering souls.
How did you start drawing, them, by the way? I'm curious.
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Just an aesthetic connection, similar to my infatuation with dead birds. I like smoke, I like hanging lanterns.
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Foliage IS a bitch. But I like this little vinette! I want an incense burner in a tree, too...
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Classy. It feels like the second or third page to a "wind in the willows" type book.
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SUPERB!!
I love it! also your foliage, although you don't like XD
I like draws inside a cercle!
Beautiful draw! Will you paint it?
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what an atmosphere this picture has... very nice, just can't help but to like it
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Nothing more relaxing and rewarding than going back to your traditional roots. Love it and glad you decided to do it.
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