I though that this was a Banyan tree, but I think I might be wrong about that and me being me I've cut off the bit of blurb that told me exactly what it was. Kiddlies are quite insistent that it's a baby belly.
I just loved the texture of the wrinkly bark.
This one was layers of wax crayon and oil pastel, covered with dark ink and then scraped into. I think it captures the trunks textures quite well, although the colours are all wrong.
This was thick heavy layers of goauche, combed through with a home made cardboard comb very quickly.
Stripes made with different shades of Copic Markers.
I also made studies with metallic coloured pencils and with using an eraser in graphite to pick out the streaks, but I don't seem to have photographed them.
I enjoyed the first picture I chose for this exercise much more than this one and I suspect that is down to the lack of bright colours in this one. I think that colour is quite important to my enjoyment of lots of different things and although I loved the texture of this tree I just couldn't get fired up about creating samples based on it. I must remember this in future!
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