Nature and Buildings

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I once was told by a gallery owner that charcoal drawings are never the finished product but only a first stage, a sketch towards a bigger, more accomplished 'real' oil or acrylics painting.

 

I could not disagree more. 

For me each piece is the 'real' piece, a work of love in itself.

 

Nature lends itself to any medium and charcoal is a fantastic way of representing intricate and obscure tree trunks. Of course, the glory of colour gives any painting a new dimention. Different, not better. A colour representation of nature does simply not convey the same message of one made in charcoal.