Sunday, October 9, 2011

Sunday Sketches

I just returned from incredible adventures in Peru and managed to create a few sketches along the way.

I spent several days at Willka T'ika Guesthouse in the Sacred Valley which is a charming and lovely place full of beautiful gardens, fabulous vegetarian food which was grown there, and filled with 18 wonderful women to share experiences.

I became very fond of the thousand-year-old Lucuma tree which called Carol, the inspiration behind Willka T'ika, to this piece of land for the setting of the guesthouse. As she explains, "In the crown chakra garden, a thousand-year-old lucuma tree connects guests to the energy and wisdom of the ancient Inkan civilization. The grassy area beneath the lucuma tree is a perfect place for meditation." The tree has these wonderful, bulbous appendices of bark. One evening for desert we were treated to a wonderful dish with the lucuma fruit......yum!

Here I am painting the first sketch of the Lucuma tree.


This is the first sketch.


I had to get closer to really capture the bark.


Here is that rendition of the Lucuma Tree.


And here is the beautiful tree.



I will be painting more of this tree!

6 comments:

  1. beautiful sketch of an exotic tree. Wonderful travels you are experiencing and the weather looks great.

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  2. Yay! Drawing outdoors! And it looks like you had a wonderful afternoon and have your lovely drawing from the day. I like the way you used lines to add texture--looks like an organic flow of continuous lines--and the variation of textures you represented. :)
    Happy SS,
    Alaurie

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  3. Lovely sketches for a wonderful place ~ Can see why you will be sketching more of this tree ~ Wow! What an experience! ~
    thanks, namaste, Carol (Share the Creative Journey) linked with Sunday Sketches ^_^

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  4. Awesome sketches...what an inspiring place. Lucky you! POP ART MINIS

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  5. That is a beautiful tree and the gardens are fabulous! Super painting.

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  6. What an interesting tree. I love your sketches of it!

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