Said to the chant ‘The Red Coats are coming……’ The Red Maples are blooming, the Red Maples are blooming! And, early, too!! 🙂
Category Archives: Trees
The Sketchbook Project Update #5 – Trees
Please click all images to enlarge. It’s time to celebrate trees 🙂 Walk with us to the 10th hole. It’s 423 yards from the back tee to the green. The cart path runs along the edge of the woods. Now that it’s winter and much of the greenery has died back, I can see standing […]
Dahoon Holly Sprig
Dahoon Holly SprigOriginally uploaded by PJBee I love this time of year when the Holly trees sport their fruit. I discovered this variety of Ilex right outside my door, after I read Elizabeth Smith’s Dahoon post. The pen illustration with watercolor shadows of the sprig was done as a demo for my last workshop at […]
In Honor of Two Trees
Back in March I finally had the opportunity to sketch 2 trees (very dead) that I enjoy keeping track of. This spring, every time we walked this trail, more and more trees had rotted and fallen due to unnatural standing water. Poor judgement or lack of care in this housing development turned a Bottom Land […]
Early May Sketches
On the north end of Hilton Head Island is a lovely place called Jarvis Creek Park. I like to visit and sketch the pond and it’s surroundings. There is a dock for fishing with big signs saying ‘Do not feed the alligators.’ In fact, these signs are posted all along the shoreline. No fresh water […]
Windmill Palm Sketch
Sketched a friends Windmill Palm yesterday. It had fruit all over it. And, on the funny side, this is all that’s left to my General’s sketch and wash pencil. Amazing how much a pencil holder helps 🙂
