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Happy holiday weekend to all my friends across the pond 🙂
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Yesterpost I was showing you the Tree of Life, the drawing that’s been with me for (still finding this bit hard to believe) ten years.
I’ve photoshopped it through a few variations over this time, and to celebrate it’s tenth birthday I decided to reinvent one more incarnation for 2017.
More vivid, more zingy, the colors are almost an inverse of the one I showed you yesterday. Here they are together side by side.
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I’m fascinated by how the mood shifts with the colors.
The underwater-y-ness is amped up with the sharper blues. I like the way that once again it’s completed a circle, as the beginning drawing was in shades of blue, and here we are back in this side of the spectrum.
Here she is in some little detail pieces…
Tree of Life 2017: detail
So that the new version isn’t lonely (yes, that is a thing with drawings, didn’t you know?) it’s joined by a newly spruced up version of the original drawing, so a bluer blue version is out there too.Â
Life often moves in a spiral motion: I’ve been here before, haven’t you?
The view is a little bit different through today’s lens but what I see looks distinctly familiar.
It feels like no time passed, in so many senses, but the numbers tell me it’s approaching 10 years since I drew this.
I remember so vividly, when this drawing came through me. (Not to me, most definitely through me)
Have you had this happen too?
I had the strongest sense of just being a vehicle through which this drawing wanted to be made real. It could have been anyone.
Of everything I’ve ever drawn, I’ve felt the least able to claim this as ‘mine’. If anything, I am its.
I remember the day it happened, I remember the big pad of watercolor paper, the watercolor pencils and paints, the frenzy of leaves and curves and wispy bits.
I remember watching it happen in front of me: Connected, and separate. Both at once.
The drawing had its own spirit, and was not willing to stay on paper.
It wanted to grow, to have more color, more depth, more vibrancy. What It had me draw was only a skeleton.
it demanded scanning and tinkering, new layers of color, new detail.
Even all these years later, through it’s many incarnations and variations, it’s the most loved of all my drawings.
It’s me, and it isn’t me.
It’s an enigma.
It is, Tree of Life.
To celebrate 10 years of Tree of Life I’ve adapted it for printables, so it can manifest itself around the world.
Would you like to give this drawing a space in your world? It’s available from Society6 in many shapes and forms.
Art prints in many sizes, framed or unframed
Notebooks for musings & doodles, lists & lyrics, poems & plans. Cases, covers & skins for phones/ ipods. Totes & zippy pouches for carrying important things around in! And more!Â
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