Pine and Artist

One class instructor wore an old timey hat with brim like one sees in movies from the 30's and 40's...that's him too in the Chapel Sentinel watercolor posted yesterday...the Pine in the watercolor is maybe too tall, the roots too big, the bridge, Stoneman, too small, and the artist tiny...but I like the way the tree limbs reach out, and the disproportionate sizes!...and tried to capture those notions in the charcoal sketch...sunny blue warm...rolled over to Michaels...three packets of charcoal sticks, black, white, sepia... a whole bunch of kneaded erasers (only way to get generals was to buy the whole packet of like 12 little ones), artists soap, 10 10/8 wrapped canvases (to mount watercolor paper on), and a Farmer's Almanac (saw it waiting in line)....64 dollars!...I know it has to do with rent and employees, and valued shelf slots...and at Denny's, looking out the window...premium gas $2.51 a gallon!!...and that's fracking!!!...I don't capture the way the light is falling very well, but did have shadow under the artist, and tried to include....but...well, a sketch from a sketch is like that game where one whispers something in another's ear, and to another and to another, and when the whisper comes back around, it's entirely different!