Category: Plants in art

An envisioning. July 2022, and a late morning heading toward crab salad luncheon with the ladies’ time at the Active Retiree Inn at Glimmerglass Bluffs.

Oh to be here.

The servers setting up the dining room. More guests than the invitation had promised, at least as far as one can tell from the number of dishes and courses listed. Only five items and two desserts, but an entire horseshoe table like the kind the Governor had at his banquet back in Boston that time, the one that was supposed to be lobster but the lobsters weren’t leaping into the traps. Gallons of baked beans garnished with parsley instead. This lunch better, for sure, what with not even a can of baked beans for miles and three bowls of marshmallow-studded ambrosia already.

Please click through the link to read the rest if you’d like. It’s all published to my Substack including this image and a second one.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-july-2022-and-a-late

Learning to draw trees from back before Youtube and Bob Ross. It’s true the subject matter is a bit limited but the colors are glowing. Imagery from the sketch books of Vere Foster, published in 1895 as “Studies of trees in pencil and in water colors.” The captions and text are by J. Needham.

Front cover. Image 1 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: Lessons in Foliage Contrasts; Oak, Ash, Beech, Etc. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/mode/1up
Front cover. Image 4 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/n4/mode/1up
Plate 1 – Contrasts of Foliage – the Oak and the Ash – by J. Needham. Image 11 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/11/mode/1up
Mountain Scene – Oak – Drawn by J. Needham. Image 21 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/21/mode/1up
Plate IV – Scene in Sherwood Forest – Drawn by J. Needham. Image 23 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/23/mode/1up
Plate V – Old Oak by the Wayside, Surrey – by J. Needham. Image 27 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/27/mode/1up
Plate VI – Ash by the Wayside – by J. Needham. Image 35 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/35/mode/1up
Old Ash-trunk – Drawn by J. Needham. Image 37 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/37/mode/1up
Plate VII – The Great Ash Scene in Surrey – By J. Needham. Image 39 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/39/mode/1up
Plate VIII – The Beech in Early Autumn – By J. Needham. Image 43 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/43/mode/1up
Plate IX – Old Beech Trunks in Burnham Wood – By J. Needham. Image 49 of STUDIES OF TREES IN PENCIL AND WATER-COLORS: With a Description of each Tree, and Full Instructions for Drawing and Painting by an Experienced Teacher. First Series. Vere Foster, artist. J Needham, author. Published in 1895 by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin. Collections of Brigham Young University. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/studiesoftreesin00need/page/49/mode/1up

Vere Foster put out other books along the same lines including one about painting landscapes.