Semi-imaginary Orchard


This mini orchard does exist. We have a row of three mature pear trees and an even older apple growing in the land where we live. But this sketch of the three pears is imagined in that I didn’t look at a reference or go out there and draw them from sight. I do want to try some plain air drawing out there this year though — something I’m not familiar with at all.

I added a few leaves to these imagined versions of our pears but they don’t actually even have leaf buds at this time of the year.

What is represented somewhat accurately is the spacing between the trees and which currently have other companion plants growing underneath them. There is also a small patch of raspberries between two of the trees.