Sketches done in the back garden, overcast October Saturday, not cold but looked as if it could rain at any minute. No strong shadows the only darks in the windows of the shed and house and in the trunk of the cherry tree that appears in all but one of the drawings. Small garden so the cherry tree is going to make an appearance wherever I position my self with a sketch pad.
Leaves have all but fallen from the tree, and I feel that the landscape section of the course has come at the right time..might not get the contrasts in light and darks that come with a sunny day but I prefer to draw the leaf less tree.
A4 sketchpad and a HB and 4B pencil
1st drawing is off the edge of the conservatory, with wind chime hanging over a chair, (loving polished each year with danish oil - oh the joys of owning garden furniture, rarely find time to sit in it so I'll make it the focal point in the drawing) the chair I have tried emphasise by making the neighbouring plant pots quite dark. steps leading up to a shed, dark patch on shed to indicate window.. conservatory window white, pale blind is drawn in this room (no dark reflections visible).
2nd drawing cherry tree in front of arbour and wall with flower pot standing on it that in front the tree, plants between pot a tree lightly rendered to help give a sense of distance between the two objects.
3rd drawing and possibly my favorite, like the black patches that define the windows and patio door, sitting in arbour looking past the cherry towards then back of the house... confusing patch of graphite in bottom right corner of drawing is a trampoline in front of the conservatory.
Last drawing looking across the garden from side of shed towards neighbouring houses, altering scale of the v of the roof line and window to, I hope, give a sense of one house being very much in the background, the second house in middle ground and the cherry tree in the foreground. Tried to hint the mass of ivy that is grow along the fence.
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