Trees

My students asked me the other day to teach them to draw trees so I’ve been working on tree studies this weekend.

Most of these were done while sitting as a passenger in my friend’s truck, driving across southwestern Minnesota. One was done while sitting by a lake, eating Vietnamese-inspired croissants from Mi Sant bakery and kitchen.

Three separate autumnal tree and landscape sketches are depicted on a textured paper, featuring various trees, grassy areas, and a grain silo in the background, with handwritten notes at the bottom detailing locations and dates.A watercolor and ink sketch depicts a small grove of birch trees with yellow and green leaves on a textured beige background.