Here are a few more of my favourite photos from winter trip to Westonbirt arboretum, which I shall be working from shortly!
(all photos copyright of Alison Sloggett)
trees
Looking up at an elbow
my most recent trip to the arboretum was on a lovely sunny day just after Christmas, whilst there I was trying to capture the trees from perspectives I hadn’t before, here is one of the better ones
No pain no gain!
so, progress on the collaborative piece, built up the layers, and now stitching through it all, to help hold bits on and add to the design, but it takes it toll on the old digits hence a bit of tape to help.
Westonbirt collaborative piece
I am Working on this very large piece, for my Westonbirt exhibition.
It will be made up of lots of little drawings that I gathered from visitors to westonbirt in a week in April.
I asked them to draw their favourite part of the tree or a part they found interesting.
Now I am going to put them all together hopefully to make a whole tree out of the parts they have drawn.
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These are some images of the first stages, I wanted a bit of colour in there so the background will be inked in the shape of a tree, the pics above are some of the details of the ink, which I have been letting do its own thing up to a point, to create interesting marks and layers !
Detail of Oriental Plane drawings
Three images of details of the large drawings I did at Westonbirt,
If you look closely you can see small pieces of text amongst the drawing, these were overheard snippets of conversation from the people passing by.
Westonbirt week two
This was the second Plane tree that I drew while I was there that week ( for more info please visit my westonbirt arboretum page) This one was in the snow, and awfully cold, made me work fast, which I think helped this drawing, the other two , which were done in more friendly weather conditions I spent a bit more time over, theres more detail to them, but I like the fact that this one is not too detailed or overworked.
How to Solve a Problem like Persian Ironwood..
These are two prints of the same etching, which was a drawing of a Persian Ironwood tree (Parrotia persica) I did while at Westonbirt.
I kept seeing these trees while I was there and going up to them and wondering what they were, and soon realised most of the time the small tangled tree with reddish branches in question was Persian Ironwood.
I loved the name, sounded exotic and always sent images off in my brain of warmer places, which was nice in the snow.
I decided to draw it onto an etching plate, but the problem was all the branches! they don’t seem to grow in any ordered way at all, so i did not try to sit there and untangle the branches before my eyes, I just drew what my eyes made out from the tangle. The first print is just as it is , the second on the right I left a bit more ink on the plate, and then rubbed it off where some of the branches were.
Straight Up
Trying to draw the sense of vertigo when you look up at a tree straight up.
I might carry on working this, still a little dead I think, like the leave need to be thicker…
(Graphite powder, range of pencils and a bit of charcoal on paper. A1 size.)
A diffrent perspective?
all the diffrent lines…
apologies for the rubbish photo.
