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PAPER COMPOSITIONPaper can take an enormous amount of punishment. I decide to do this picture of my favorite tree, a Eucalyptus citriadora. It has the most amazing pinkish wood under the shedding top bark...and there is always miniature life at play on it's slopes.I took several photos of the bark and made a sketch of how I wanted the bark to look. I then used my wire nibbed burner (with a long modified nib) to literally heat carve each layer of 'bark' out of paper. The bark was then assembled on a full piece of paper that had washes applied to make it look like the pink part of the tree. I also took a ball hammer to this background paper to give it texture. I then sketched in my imaginary lizard,and ants and pyrographed the lot...bark, tree, cracks, shadows, the lizard and ants. The last step was to add colour to the bark.Simple! |
