After one year of mainly painting I have recently come back to drawing. It gives me the great opportunity to study nature on a smaller scale without color, but gives me the freedom to experiment a lot with values and different ways in how to use the medium. It is much fun to play around with different effects in drawing, from glazing in layer after layer a light, ghosty background to drawing out some details in the foreground while approaching the middleground in an almost painterly way, massing in big areas of light and dark.This drawing I have done as a study of trees in the hills around Florence in preparation for a bigger painting I'm currently working on. Almost like in drawing or painting the model I got to understand that each tree has his own characteristics , while every type of tree has a specific anatomy in common. If we don't understand nature well, it will be impossible for us realist artists to reproduce it well.
