Trees

"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind." Merry Brandybuck

“Trees don’t look like trees.” I can’t recall where I first read that, but I’ve seen it plenty of times since, especially in books about landscape drawing. And it’s true. Try to draw or paint a tree such that it looks like a tree, and, at best, you’ll get something like this.

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Ok, that looks pretty good, if a tad too symmetrical. Let me try again: