Balance

Two Trees on the Hill

colored pencil on Rising Museum Board

4.5 x 6.5 inches

©Ann Thompson Nemcosky

This is what I have been working on over the past few days. I have been wanting to get back to working in  colored pencil and used this drawing as a practice piece of sorts, to become familiar again with drawing. There are more paintings of my 100 painting project coming, but I have been feeling a need for more balance in my work. Drawing, for me, is such a nice balance to painting.

This is a view from the Blue Ridge Parkway near my home. Just over the hill with the trees and before the more distant hill is a road that I travel nearly every time I return from town. I have always liked the openness there. Just before that stretch the road is very windy and tree lined. Then the road straightens out for a bit as it rises up with these bare, rolling hills on either side and it's like an exhale, ahhhh....