For this study I chose a bit of a different angle on things. Trees are interesting to look at, but what I found is they take on a completely different form when looking up underneath them. Perspectives are distorted, anamorphic shapes take place where straight, up right trees should be, and the whole sensory experience breaks down from what you believe to think what should look ‘right’, to what my perceptions actually saw.
Sitting out under the canopy that I was drawing I realised how different the shapes were to drawing a full frontal of a tree. The perspective heightened my interest in an idea of how something can look so different from an irregular angle? Up or down, close or far ect……
I used oil pastel to create the main colour, then worked a brush with turpentine over the drawing to see what effect it would have.
I managed to get a sharper edge with the turps and managed to darken some areas of foliage which was interesting to see. I wasn’t too sure how it would work out, but I can see now how turps works with oil pastel and may very well utilise it with regards with some sort of fumigato style, finding I could blend the colours together and get a contrast between sharp edges and blurred lines.
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