Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Lawrence Nature Trail


        It was probably spring when I last made it to the opposite corner of town for a walk on this trail.  I had been hoping to make it up there in time to see the hickories in their fall color but doesn't always happen the way you want.  Now all the trees are bare of leaves except, as Robert Frost put it, "for those the oak is keeping to send them scraping and creeping out over the crusted snow." 
        I did however find the start of another trail on the east end of a rocky ridge that runs east and west through the center of the park.  I had seen the west end of this trial, but never taken it for lack of time or whatever.  It is not as well used as the other trails.  So I took this new discovery down to the very south valley of the park; though once again for lack of time I left more trail below still to explore.
        This drawing was done just after I cut off on the east end of this "new" trail. At first it cuts closer to the property to the south, which is visible through the bare trees. I had never seen this view before.
         Done in the same 7" x 9" pad as the previous drawing. Again also it was sketched in pencil and then finished up later with a couple ink pens. My original intention was to finish the trunks of the trees as dark as they were in real life, with the backlighting of the midday sun. Seemed to me though, as I worked on the drawing that the effect of the thin dark vertical lines of the trees was something that should not be obscured; it ties the entire drawing together pretty well.
        

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