Wilderness
Posted by Philip Habel on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
This week's IF topic "Wilderness" inspired me to do one of my first landscape drawings.
Although it's not actually wild bush (it is less than a quarter of a mile from Australia's Parliament House), I startled a number of grazing kangaroos when I was looking for somewhere to sketch. This area looks like much of the wild bushland that you can find around here. Some of the eucalypt trees are large, with sparse foliage, held at the end of slender branches; this gives the landscape a transparent feel. When you look through the trees, you just see more and more trees ...
Although it's not actually wild bush (it is less than a quarter of a mile from Australia's Parliament House), I startled a number of grazing kangaroos when I was looking for somewhere to sketch. This area looks like much of the wild bushland that you can find around here. Some of the eucalypt trees are large, with sparse foliage, held at the end of slender branches; this gives the landscape a transparent feel. When you look through the trees, you just see more and more trees ...