I’m playing around with Adobe Photoshop and some of the charcoal drawings I did back in the early days of lockdown in 2020, when we just had an hour a day out of our houses. Back then, the drawings looked quite grim to me, in stark black and white on heavy textured Khadi paper, which gave them a jagged look. Now after a couple of years and a return to – almost – normality, I’m enjoying combining them with colour, they feel different and there’s a strangeness to this tree with the colours added.
Here’s the original, from Cwmdonkin Park, which was part of the regular route that Husb and I walked.



It’s interesting that I ‘read’ the coloured version of this as two seperate images rather than a double spread, which was obvious in the original. Which prompts me to ask if you have you played around with the rotation and pattern making options in photshop as well?
Not for this particular one, but I play with those occasionally 🙂