50 cm (w) x 35 cm (h), pastels on acid-free paper.

This was produced entirely on-site. This piece was originally started as a colour overview of the tree. The surrounding trees were not included, so that the tree was seen as the only subject. The colours were originally developed to closely match those seen from the tree. After revisiting the pastel, I felt that it didn’t really feel like it was reflecting the sense of sunlight that it should have been. I then set about trying to improve that sense of sunlight, by increasing the yellow and yellow-orange intensity, and then looking at the feeling of the whole image.

A photographic view of the subject tree in 2006 from a similar direction to that used for the drawing above:

Direction of viewing point shown on a map of the buttress roots and main lower boughs:

This map and the previous photograph are provided to help you to understand and/or appreciate the drawing more. Because this drawing was drawn completely on-site, if you go to the real subject tree with this display on your mobile phone or tablet, it is possible using this map of the tree to find the real place where the drawing was produced from. If you attempt to do this, please remember that I was sitting on a camp stool some distance from the tree to do this drawing, and the tree has changed since 2005 (but typically changed only a little).