Kristin Meuser taught a wonderful class titled The Gesture of Trees during the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference. She called our trees “Scribble Trees”.  As in previous classes there was an invitation to wonder what it would be like to be an element of nature. How could we move like a tree? What parts of the tree remind me of myself? What kind of energy does the tree have? Kristin suggests that these observations make their way into your drawings. How would you describe the energy of these two trees on the Arcata Plaza?

Really different aren’t they? To assist us placing this energy on the page Kristen we printed architectural drawings of trees and scribbled the energy we felt right on top of the handout. The two trees that are circled are original and the other trees have been drawn with pencil and watercolor.

I like to include maps on some of my journal pages so architectural renderings of tree tops would come in handy and they have their own kind of energy don’t they? Thanks to my brother-in-law Rod Lamberson – a very fine architect!

Would any of these ideas be helpful in your drawings?