watercolour wash with watercolour pencil on a white support.
(Disappointed that the photograph didn't bring out the intensity of the colour of the original drawing.)
I wanted to capture the graceful sweep of these trees, the smooth tree bark and big dark shiny leaves.
I started with a wash of watercolour,
(by putting a wash down I find it helps to give me a confidence of line when using the pencil, I know were I am going.)
When that was dry I used several tones of green watercolour pencil, to define the shapes, cross-hatching to consolidate the forms and lastly I added a bit of water to the pencil.
Not enough darks in the leaves and shadows....or anywhere in fact, and I didn't get the effect I wanted, were the tree trunks, the ground beneath them and the foliage above was all very dark (almost silhouetted) against the sunlight background.
Although not dark enough, I quite liked the way the leaves came out, with the watercolour I had made lots of downward paintbrush strokes, trying to simulate a leaves, then put in pencil, outlining the leaves closest to me and further back attempting those odd shapes, almost triangular in places.
It could have been better, if I had been braver with my darks.
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