Watercolor Christmas tree

Since it is rather cold outside I decided to stay in the sofa and draw what I could see from there. One thing dominating our livingroom right now is ... ta da... the Christmas tree so it became my object.

To be honest it is not the most beautiful creation in it self and our decorations doesn't make it much better. But it is our tree and it is decorated with things my two boys have made in school and kindergarten over the years.

Christmas tree 2014

I also made this little sketch in my sketchbook of one of all the candles that we have around here. It feels a bit sad no lit up and all but anyway.

Sad  little candle

Where have all the flowers gone?

Where have all the colors gone?

It sure is autumn here. Only a few leaves are still clinging on to the branches and those that do are pale yellow or brown. There are no flowers to draw and summer seems far away.

I brought my tiny Moleskine journal and Lamy safari pen on my walk and decided to draw something. Birches and pine finally ended up in my sketchbook.

Autumn colors

The watercolor was added when I got home.

I copied the twig to the left in my (slightly) bigger sketchbook, and I turned out like this.

Bigger twigg

Today the rain is pouring down so no sketching outdoors can not be done. Maybe I will do something similar to these more imaginary trees that I did a few weeks ago.

Graphical tree

Or this more colorful, map like tree shape.