Session 12- Trees and People!

 Wednesday's art challenge was to draw or paint something on a theme chosen this time by Dan Lish (who couldn't make the session alas!) on Trees and People. The subjects seemed to bring a lot of dryads, nymphs and tree-folk out of the woodwork (ha ha!) with the usually unusual diversity of styles including the fabulous animation above made by Daniel Houlle from a photograph taken by his friend Natasha Zupan who normally lives in Mallorca but is currently stuck in Panama with no way back. So here is what our multi-national, multi-talented little band of outlaws came up with-

Anne Lindenburger who hails from Siberia and is currently locked down in Uzbekistan gave us the mythical figure of  Leshy! In the beliefs of the Slavic people, Leshy is the protector of the forest and everything that lives in it. His natural form looks like a human but he can easily shape shift into any plant or animal. A handy trick to have! Love the red!

Next from Anne Alderson we have the first of our wood-nymphs. Drawn from her vivid and saucy imagination Anne has produced this watercolour of a blend of womanhood and wood. Also, we have a woodpile and a rendering of the famous Pre-Raphaelite painting by Edward Burne-Jones called The Tree of Forgiveness. Would you Adam and Eve it?

Alan Bartlett (a master of colour IMHO!) during the session painted these gorgeous dancing dryads and also offered up a dazzling golden image of two other dancers which he'd done earlier.

Another dazzler with her colours is Julia Xandru from Rumania who always likes to supply several images. The big one is one that she'd previously begun but was working on during the session (our rules are very flexible) and we also have two more images of trees and people. At least, I think there's a tree in the top one but I like it anyway- tree or no tree!

Working at the same time but off-line from Morocco we have this lovely tranquil scene from Khawla Sdour.
I wonder what she's thinking (the dog I mean). Only Khawla knows!

Some gorgeous drawings and a watercolour painting of trees and a figure from Annalisa Renee.

My own effort! It's those tree-nymphs again! They get everywhere. There should be a law to stop them cavorting around in the nude upsetting local hikers!

And here we have a beautifully contemplative image of a girl's face in the tender embrace of the hands of a tree!
Sophie Birritta drew this during the session and I think it's a lovely image. Nice one, Sophie!

And finally, our newest sketcher, Emily Woolfe in Worthing drew this startlingly strong image  during the session.
Fantastic stuff! And I hope she will return for the next session on Sunday where the theme is-
MYTHOLOGY!

Since posting up the blog I've had a couple of late entries from regular sketchers Marina Renee-Cemmick and Pearl Bates. Above are Mimi's lovely black and white hybrids of people and plants. Then below is Pearl's gorgeous drawing of a tree creature. Superb work everyone!