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Title: Twisted Tree in Misty Sunlight
Date: 12/2000
Size: 18" x 24"
Material: Strathmore Drawing Paper
Medium: Dry - Vine and Compressed Charcoal

An assignment for Drawing 4A class to draw a tree from our own imagination without leaves. The tree was to be drawn without using lines, rather using the broad side of the charcoal to shade creating different values. A sense of space needed to be created utilizing contrast and masking techniques - light against dark or dark against light. The only requirments were to fill up the whole page, at least ten branches, and three distinct areas of foreground, middle, and background.

This is an alternate version for the assignment, based on one of my earlier ideas. Whereas the first tree was a light foreground object against a dark background, this is the opposite, dark foreground against a light background. Obviously inspired by the large, gnarled tree created by Tim Burton for his version of Sleepy Hollow. For some reason when I think of trees, Sleepy Hollow always comes to mind.

Description
Title: Twisted Tree in Misty Sunlight
Date: 12/2000
Size: 18" x 24"
Material: Strathmore Drawing Paper
Medium: Dry - Vine and Compressed Charcoal

An assignment for Drawing 4A class to draw a tree from our own imagination without leaves. The tree was to be drawn without using lines, rather using the broad side of the charcoal to shade creating different values. A sense of space needed to be created utilizing contrast and masking techniques - light against dark or dark against light. The only requirments were to fill up the whole page, at least ten branches, and three distinct areas of foreground, middle, and background.

This is an alternate version for the assignment, based on one of my earlier ideas. Whereas the first tree was a light foreground object against a dark background, this is the opposite, dark foreground against a light background. Obviously inspired by the large, gnarled tree created by Tim Burton for his version of Sleepy Hollow. For some reason when I think of trees, Sleepy Hollow always comes to mind.