Because of illness I have not been able to get into the Park for a while but today I joined the fortnightly sketchers group and as it was spotting with rain plonked my stool down in a grove of Yew trees which gave some shelter. I set about drawing one of the trees. Yews are amazing, very long lived and with wonderfully shaped branches. It was very dark under the trees and as it really clouded over it got more and more difficult to see what I was doing but here is the result of my peering into the increasing gloom..
ritasspot, a blog about Hotham Park by it's Artist in Residence 