Drawings at Veterans Bridge Home

Until the end of November, these drawings on exhibit at the Veterans Bridge Home in Charlotte. The link to the VBH is: http://veteransbridgehome.org/. You can visit any time during normal business hours Monday to Friday.

The drawings in this post are ones I did recently in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are close up details of pine trees on the Arrowmont Art School property. I used a lot of texture on these, even going so far as to rub the paper onto the tree itself.

 I drew these from life, sitting outside with a drawing board. During the week I was drawing we saw a few bear wandering around. Once I thought a bear was walking down the trail I was on, but it was just a human running.

 All of the drawings are 18 x 24 inches. I used 2B to 8B pencils. The texture is offset by a few delicate small branches.