A few days ago I did a short online art course, the Saturday Sketch Club with the Royal Academy of Arts. The session was about drawing from the imagination with the artist Emyr Williams. It was so good for me because it’s something I just don’t normally do, I like to work from what’s in front of me.
We started by drawing random curves (left above) all over a sheet of paper, I used a Chinagraph pencil. Then we added more curves to parts of it to try and create a tree from the space (top image). At no time did we look at a tree. It was inspired by the tree drawings and paintings of Piet Mondrian (right above).
I’d admired Mondrian’s trees for some time, they’re so different to his eventual rigid geometric paintings. This drawing exercise was about 10 minutes.
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