"Tree growing out of rocks" Charcoal drawing with white highlights

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Charcoal pencils on tan paper

Date

21 Oct 2007

Creation time

20 minutes

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Coloured paper

Drawings

Plants and nature

Tonal rendering

Comments by the artist

Today I went to the Botanical Gardens in Sydney and I found this really interesting tree to draw. It was growing out of the cracks between some huge sandstone blocks and above that there was a man made retaining wall of smaller blocks. It made for some really interesting shapes. I had to climb half way up a cliff to get to it.