Thursday, November 27, 2014

Tree of life drawing

I finished my little tree of life drawing. I'm not sure how I feel about all the black. Next time I want to try something with deep indigo blue. 


Below are some pictures that I used for inspiration and reference. I hesitated posting them just now because they are amazing and I feared my work might suffer by contrast, but I really wanted to share them too, so I decided to just get over myself.

The tree design below is by English Arts and Crafts designer C.F.A. Voysey. I found it at the Victoria and Albert Museum.


The next is by Maud and Miska Petersham, illustrators from the last century whom I really, really love. I wish I knew what book it's from. I found the image on The Lop Shop, which is devoted to all things lop-eared bunny (yes, its true).


This bracelet is by Art Nouveau designer Henry Vever, and can be seen on World's Luxury Guide


The Illustration Friday prompt this week was "slow."  I thought I had at least a little justification for posting this picture there. For one thing, it has a turtle in it. I also though it could be a symbol of the slowly maturing fruitfulness that can happen when we mindfully slow down. Not that I thought about that while I was doing it or feel like that is its essential meaning.

4 comments:

  1. Lovely work!!! Black is not bad (I like black) but indigo would make the tree pop out more!!! Have a lovely weekend!!!

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  2. Thank you! I took a look at your blog and your work is charming. I hope to see more!

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  3. All the animals are charming, but the hedgehogs are sooo cute! Would love to see more drawings featuring hedgehogs. :)

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  4. I know. I don't tend to look at animal pictures and think "Oh, I need," but when I was looking at hedgehogs online to draw them for this, I felt the need. You should google mama and baby hedgehogs. Or maybe you shouldn't....

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