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Blowing Cherry Blossoms by *robertsloan2:iconrobertsloan2:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Landscapes & Scenery

©2007-2009 *robertsloan2
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11" x 8" Derwent Drawing Pencils on 90lb all-media paper.

A fat, twisted old cherry tree scatters blooms across a flowering meadow, with much use of negative space. This piece needed to be both cropped and cleaned up in the scan or its title would have been "Cherry Tree and Chocolate Fingers." The cleaning effort was not completely successful and left damaged stained paper up at the top right corner, though smaller areas elsewhere on the piece came off completely. It'll have to be matted at other than its original 9" x 12" size, and so this changes the composition. It was perfectly balanced in its original shape but there's not much I can do about it now except to come close to what I wanted in the re-framing.

I might change its proportions again in the matting since some spots had to come out completely. Rather annoyed and may have to redo this sometime.

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=RooCat Jan 27, 2007, 11:52:15 AM
Very Ichabod Crane-ish. :D

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*robertsloan2 Jan 27, 2007, 12:27:15 PM
Neat, though I don't really see the connection... do you mean the movie Sleepy Hollow that I saw recently or the Ichabod Crane from the story? Been decades since I read the story, and I recall clearly being annoyed that what set up as a nice spooky ghost story seemed to devolve into a cruel prank on the main character.

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~danjou Jan 27, 2007, 12:51:12 PM
Too bad about the 'chocolate fingers'. That can be so frustrating, though if it's any consolation if you hadn't told me exactly where to look I doubt I ever would have noticed.
Again, I'm in love with the tree. There's something very feminine about it's shape, it's curves and hollows.
Pretty. ^^
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=RooCat Jan 27, 2007, 12:53:48 PM
In the story, the trees were out to get him, leaning, grabbing, scary reaching trees. That's what it reminded me of...

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*robertsloan2 Jan 27, 2007, 1:21:34 PM
Oooh yeah, I remember that description in the story now. Yep. This tree would be a bit like that if it was at night. I thought of it more as leaning gracefully over scattering blooms but I can see that with the shape. Or the trees in Mirkwood that would do that. I like drawing heavily wind-twisted trees more than straight trees, though I did a few of those in the graphite painting too.

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Robert A. Sloan, writer and artist
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*robertsloan2 Jan 27, 2007, 1:49:34 PM
Yes, I noticed that as soon as I did the trunk -- she looks as if she has a nymph or dryad resident tossing cherry blossoms, swaying and dancing in the wind. In the interest of the children's IQ's, we've been letting them watch Fantasia 2000 very often and there's that neat sequence where the goddess is dancing around the cherry tree making it bloom, it reminds me of that too.

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Robert A. Sloan, writer and artist
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=RooCat Jan 27, 2007, 2:24:24 PM
Yes, wind twisted trees are much more interesting for the most part whether drawn or in photography. :D

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:please: :eyes: :gallery: :thanks:
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~danjou Jan 28, 2007, 3:01:22 PM
As the mythology geek I am I totally squealed over the idea of cherry blossom dryads. They'd be so pretty. I haven't seen Fantasia 2000 yet, it's on the very long list of things to be rented at some point or another. I think it may have gotten bumped up on the list now. ^^
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*robertsloan2 Jan 28, 2007, 3:40:09 PM
I like them so much more. Sometimes I think it's weird, and then I remember that people love bonsai and driftwood sculptures and realize it's just that they're more artistically interesting. It's much more fun than drawing a straight up and down tree without any scars or hollows or curves.

I need to do a good fantasy piece with a dryad sometime, strongly hinting at her form in the shape of the tree as well as the nymph moving away from it.

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Robert A. Sloan, writer and artist
Visit Explore-Oil-Pastels-with-Robert-Sloan.com, my oil pastels site!
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