Anatomy of Trees - Artist's Network

One thing we need to remove from our thinking is trying to depict a tree in its realism. Trees areseveral stories tall and no painting will be able to convey their realism so we must think aboutdesigning trees into interesting shapes. In real life we don’t see a tree in one focus but in apainting we would because of the smaller scale. Too many artists try their best to copy paintings asthey appear in nature so they render them by painting many leaves and even copy theirsymmetrical shapes.This is a tree I did in my beginning months asa student. I tried to copy the photo. You cansee the shape is boring and I tried to renderleaves. I fell for all the traps. The foliage fitsin a circle which compromises its abstractshape.5