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Published: 2013-04-27 18:18:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1002; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 11
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A drawing, based on a landscape I saw years ago in Spain... Changed the olive trees into what I think are oaks; olive trees are very difficult to draw, and changed the setting into a valley ( it wasn't originally). But years later I still remember the silence, because no birds were singing, nothing blossomed, not one single grass was growing. I worked very long on this one, and I am very satified with it - hope you like it too ! All sorts of pencil on Bristol paper. ( Sold )Related content
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Really good work. It's like I can grasp the branch.
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...That was ( one of ) the intention (- s ) of this drawing. Thanks for adding it to your favourites !
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Absolutely gorgeous. Such an attention to detail and great grey scale!
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I can't help getting into the details so much - it's stronger than myself. I have tried to avoid it; many times ! Worked on a very rough paper, made thick, strong lines, tried to work with charcoal, but nothing helped....This took years. Now i know, for better or for worse ( worse, because it's consuming much time! ) - that this IS my style, this is ME; and i finally excepted it. Sounds great, no? Anyway - thank you for your nice comment.
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Well, after months ad months working on a drawing... I begin to dislike it, believe it or not. After framing, and making the photographs needed for putting it on the net, I am gonna keep it in my drawing-map until I'm curious enough to look at it again... And that's how it mostly goes with my drawings - I'm never satisfied ! My wife believes that I need some help sometimes ( lol )
Thanks for the compliment, Roger
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I feel the same way about my drawings. After staring at what ever it may be for hours on end you get tired of it. ...But looking at your drawing with fresh eyes i can tell you that it looks great and that you should frame it
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Amazing. Ive never seen aerial perspective done so convincingly with just pencils...
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Well, I did my best... Thank you for this great compliment !
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It's a fascinating drawing and a fascinating story to go with it! I like the three techniques used to render each tree and send it back in space, I'm very convinced of the space/distance between the main limb of the first tree which goes to the right and blocks some of the next tree- I feel like I could almost touch it.
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Thank you very much for your nice comment; you write you can almost touch some part of my drawing... that's a great compliment!
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It's well deserved! Keep up the great work, I look forward to more.
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Ah yes already done! Yes this is very satisfying indeed
I told you I thought it started similarly to what I could have done but it ends up infinitely different that one of my stuffs. That's really interesting!!
You played very weel with focus/no focus. I usually don't do that, I should... The light is amazing in there, very well done 
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I am very pleased with the result, no doubt about that; but I believe this is the last drawing that I have made so detailed as this one...Let me explain: you have to keep on focus all the time, for weeks, or even months, and I have more and more the feeling that this kind of work is keeping me from other "creative" ideas - in other words: my own work is pushing me into a direction that I don't really wont to go ( how's that for complex thinking ? ) Don't understand me wrong; I'm not looking down on this way of drawing ( I made it myself !) but it is keeping me from other goals I want to achieve... And time is short.
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Ha ha yes this is exactly the decision I have also taken recently. If you remember my gallery, I just started to do some abstract stuffs, and portraits etc. I also feel trapped in this kind of very detailed and in fact classical drawing. We love the feeling, it is very impressive, but still, when we actually master something, then we want to change the direction.
I swore to stay away from these drawings also, but now we can do it more easily because we practiced a lot, so in fact, sometimes, we will probably come back to this topics, and our drawings will actually be quite different, even if it feels like coming back to old feelings.
I think I understand what you say very well. That's actually good news! It means that you will now have fun with something else
By the way, you say that time is short. Why?
We can easily believe the we are very far from contemporary art and the "advanced" artistic stuffs of our time. But in fact, we are totally free to produce whatever we want and the value of what we do is not diminished because it is classical. It is like what you said in your presentation, I like classical music when it rocks! (me too by the way, I studied classical piano...).
So, well, have fun!! I am very impatient to see what you will do now 
cheers, and congrats again,
Antoine
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Time is short, because: there is so much that I still want to do, and we only have one life, isn't it?
Very strange that you took the same dicision not so long ago, but like you said very well: I feel trapped in this kind of drawing; it doesn't give me the opportunity any more to work out my ideas - in fact, it is " keeping me away " from what I really want to achieve: paintings ( or drawings for that matter ) with a " soul "...
Don't really know in which direction my artwork is going to evolve, but pastel is certainly one of the options; no more
detailed pencil work again ! That is: no trees anymore, no more landscapes... maybe nudes again, in pencil or other, like I did years ago; maybe still life ... we will see ! )
Thanks for answering, and for the fav.
Liked this conversation... Roger
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