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Drawing & Painting Trees in the Landscape Claudia Nice
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I would go over pine trees, oak trees or whatever the kids needed me to show them. Workshop- Landscape Painting and Drawing. The boxwood gardens behind the Lyme Street estate of Richard Sill Griswold, Jr., (1845–1904) were well established by 1887 when Old Gardens of Connecticut included a scale drawing “showing the exact location of every cherry tree and shrub . Annan Botanical Gardens tree in Australia is painted Blue because it is dead and the painting is meant to draw attention and teach about how even dead, it is a vibrant place of life for other creatures and insects. Image found via PaintedTree.com. I'm impressed by the drawings but as a plein air painter and landscape guy I'm not so interested in bark and pine cones. We would have a “tree drawing session”. Using field easels and working in oil or pencil, students will learn about the composition of landscape as they shape elements of trees, grounds, buildings, fountains or other aspects of their designs into compelling works. 2013 marks the centenary of Francois Krige's birth and it is therefore appropriate that The Benediction of Shade exhibition includes a delightful selection of tree drawings and paintings by Krige. Singularly and artistically chosen for an interesting surprise in the landscape. Made from mixed media, cement, and acrylic on panel, the paintings resemble pictographs, simple maps of landscapes with featureless figures and schematized trees that appear to be seen first from a speeding car or train and then transcribed from memory. Students will meet for five sessions in the historical, landscaped grounds of Sailor's Snug Harbor in New York City to paint directly from natural observation. Trees and figures appear to be hastily drawn, as if to catch, for future reference, an approximate sense of place and location. The Benediction of Shade is a group Francois Krige was also a war artist during the Second World War and in order to escape the many horrors of war, Krige would resort to painting landscapes that spoke of the tragedies during this time.