The challenge this week is to draw trees. Yesterday’s painting was a preview. This is the “Morning In the Forest” in pencil as well!

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The challenge this week is to draw trees. Yesterday’s painting was a preview. This is the “Morning In the Forest” in pencil as well!

A biweekly challenge for a total of 26 drawings this year.
Spring has finally sprung in the northeastern United States. It seems that with just a day or two of sunshine and warmth, the flowers all emerge and the buds on the trees all pop out. So for this week’s challenge the theme is:
Any species of tree, any interpretation of the theme is welcome!
This time around the challenge is ‘rain/clouds’ and I kept it simple. Nonetheless, creating clouds with a pencil and a smudger isn’t as easy as it might seem. Painting clouds is much easier. So let’s call this a study for a future painting. Here are my rain clouds:
