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Rhododendron Dell, Golden Gate Park
These trees are phenomenally gorgeous. They peak in blooms in late April and early May.
When I begin a piece I make a number of small makrso on the page with a light pastel, usually orange, but sometimes yellow or lime green. I begin the sketch by placing volumes and forms. People who believe they cannot draw can perhaps take heart when looking at the undersketch for my pastels. The first few marks do not look like much. I think people give up too soon. I have made many pieces that don't work out very well. Sometimes it's a composition problem. Sometimes it's left brain rendering. These things happen and they are all good for learning. One of the difficulties I have in nature is that I feel tied to drawing what is in front of me to the detriment of composition. The solution is to either choose my scenes better or consider leaving some things out. The photograph above is from a different angle from the one at which the animation was drawn. In the clide-by-slide show the view angels are the same for comparison. I put up this picture because you can see relative size compared to the people walking in front of the tree.
- The animation file is 150 kilobytes. Depending on the speed of your connection, it may take a few seconds to load and begin running Each of the slide pages that make up the above animation can be viewed separately. Slide pages