StudioSense: Capturing Texture
At a Landscape in Pastel class I taught at the Michigan Art Center, we spent some time reviewing the variety of tree trunk textures and how best to convey their sometimes complicated patterns of knots, crevices and bald spots. Below is a simple, quickly-done pastel painting of a tree branch (the reference photo is below). Along the Huron River at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor, MI., you can often find old twisted trees climbing up from the river bank and hanging over the water (suc