- On April 17, 2025
- By Kate
[18] Today’s prompt is Three MaterialsMake a portrait of a tree using only three materials. Ah the DRAMA! It's April, so all across the Sonoran Desert the blue palo verde…
- On April 17, 2025
- By Kate
[17] Today’s prompt is Trees & PeopleDraw people interacting with trees, or explore how how people set the scale for a tree. You might sit at a cafe and draw…
- On April 16, 2025
- By Kate
[16] Today’s prompt is DamageJournal a tree showing damage or injury such as cuts, weeps, or seeps. Is there a tree who has suffered bad pruning? Seeing damage is never…
- On April 14, 2025
- By Kate
[15] Today’s prompt is Stick FiguresDiagram a handful of trees very simply, making basic line drawings of the branching structure. Diagrams are fabulous. Making a branch diagram of a tree…
- On April 13, 2025
- By Kate
[13] Today’s prompt is Nursery RhymesGo to a local nursery to draw trees for sale along with the tree shoppers. Write poems or haiku to go with your sketches. Taking…
- On April 13, 2025
- By Kate
[12] Today’s prompt is Twig DrawingDraw trees, leaves, and branches using a twig as a paintbrush/pen. Gettin' gestural and loose with some twig action! Meet the Entree, who is YAJM…
- On April 12, 2025
- By Kate
[11] Today’s prompt is CrittersDraw a tree and note all the interactions with birds, insects, animals, and humans. Back to the Eastree today for a short-and-a-little-late-but-oh-well journal entry. It's squirrel…
- On April 10, 2025
- By Kate
[10] Today’s prompt is The Snuggle is RealJournal two trees growing tightly together. Going off-book here and digging into the memory folio for today. (I prefer to work from direct…
[09] Today’s prompt is Up into the CanopyObserve a tree by looking up into the canopy. Draw slowly, noting the patterns of sun and shade as they move and change.…
[08] Today’s prompt is Get to the Root of ItSketch, question, measure the root system of a tree. Sometimes the congruence of the world sneaks up on you, and next…
