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Stong tree (sketch: Tree 9)

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By Henk ter Heide

Connecting the trunk to the leafs.

Looking at my tree drawings you might have the feeling that they consist of two separate parts: The trunk and the leafs.
You would be right.
I used to start with a trunk. Then stop to think how I would draw the rest of the tree.
The last few days I started with the top of the tree and then planted a trunk underneath.

But every tree drawing starts out with a lot of blue. I get a brown trunk by mixing blue with orange and green leafs by mixing blue with yellow.
So why couldn’t I draw the whole tree in blue and then mix in the orange and the yellow.

I tried. In combination with the drawing with the side of the pencil this makes for a very strong tree.
(If I may say so myself :) )
Tree 9
Tree 9

With a little more experimenting I found that if I mix purple with yellow I get almost the same color brown as when I mix blue with orange.
That should mean that I could mix branches into the leafs.
Something to try tomorow.
Which goes to show that I had nothing to worry about.

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