[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-freaky-tree":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"This morning I just made a few tweaks to yesterday's tree sketch to see what might happen.\u003Cbr />\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/grnwch_tree2-c4d2d61f38.gif\" alt=\"\" />\u003Cbr />\u003Cbr />\u003Ci>Edit\u003C/i>: I've been thinking a lot about drawing trees lately. One kind I like is the really detailed gnarled ones you see in picture by Northern European Renaissance artist such as \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Durer\">Albrecht Dürer\u003C/a> or 19th-century illustrators such as \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham\">Arthur Rackham\u003C/a> and their contemporary successors such as \u003Ca href=\"bagram ibatoulline\">Bagram Ibatoulline\u003C/a>. The other kind of tree I like is much more flat and stylised, such as the 17th century manuscript paintings at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bl.uk/ramayana\">Ramayana exhibition\u003C/a> at the British Library. I've recently seen some stylish trees and brambles by \u003Cb>David Roberts\u003C/b> \u003Ci>(can't find a website)\u003C/i>, Alaskan artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.riemunoz.com/\">Rie Muñoz\u003C/a>, and \u003Cb>Tim Burton\u003C/b>'s curlicue trees are always fantastic. I'm off to the bookshelf to look for a few more, but I'm wondering, \u003Cu>do any of you have a favourite artist who draws really interesting trees?\u003C/u>\u003Cbr />\u003Cbr />Have a look, \u003Cb>Garen Ewing\u003C/b> is doing some fabulous drawings in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/blog/blog.php\">Garen's A-Z of Comic Strip Characters\u003C/a>. I think his latest, Tank Girl, is the best one yet!\u003Cbr />\u003Cbr />And I have absolutely no idea if this is going to be good, but one of my favourite things I saw in the cinema in high school was the Chinese film \u003Ci>Raise the Red Lantern\u003C/i>, directed by Zhang Yumou and starring Gong Li; the Royal Opera House are hosting a ballet version of it by the National Ballet of China. \u003Ca href=\"http://esales.roh.org.uk/tickets/production.aspx?pid=6280\">Details here.\u003C/a>","2008-08-01T09:15:00.000Z","freaky-tree",[],"freaky tree",1776628723188]