Drawing Leaves

Exercise 1:

Look at a tree:

• Draw a picture of it in as much detail as possible.
• Draw a picture of it using the fewest lines possible.

(Please read on for answers)

Hello and welcome to session eighteen. Apologies yet again that it is coming late, though this time, it is not because of Covid. The UK lockdown has finally lifted enough for me to return to my day job and, despite having reduced writing time, it is really good to be back. (While I love writing, having the time do nothing but write does suck some of the fun out of it, and the lack of other people and new experiences is not great for creativity).

Today, we are returning to the topic of description to explore another example of how lessons from another art form can apply to writing fiction. In our tour of psychology, we have reached our sixth stop in the Roman Empire and we will be studying the autobiography of one of the greatest Christian saints. Please grab a pen and paper, paints and canvas, an iPad, chalk, charcoal, pastels or any other preferred artistic medium, and we will begin.