Walnut Tree

About a year ago for one of my illustrations I created an image that was inspired by the song - "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane. Immediately after finishing the piece I knew that I wanted to do a series with a similar dreamy theme inspired by music.
So, yesterday I finally returned to this idea and completed this little piece. I thought it might be fun to do a few miniature works before doing a few big ones.

This piece is inspired by Keane's song - "Walnut Tree"

Orientation is reversible. It can be flipped this way.

and this way too:)

I drew/painted the image on 6 x 6 inch Strathmore Bristol smooth paper, but the image itself is about 4.75" wide and 2" tall.
Used my trusty 0.05 micron pen + my new 0x4 brush (and bigger brushes too) with ink. The smaller the brush is, the more excited I get!

Here's a cellphone snapshot for scale reference:

a penny for scale

Somewhere Only We Know

Summer Illustration Course - Assignment 3

For this project we to go crazy and illustrate something that was inspired by a speech, literary passage poem, or song.
I illustrated my interpretation of the song: "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane, specifically this passage:

“I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?”

Concept Sketch

light penciling

inked

decided to add a splash of light colour and also some hummingbirds:)

 Info:

Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper
9 x 12 inches
Rapidograph line work + watercolour paints

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