August 1. Forest in Manhattan.

I thought I would get more drawing done this week, but these were the only two. Still working on using color, slowing learning a thing or two through experimentation.

While sketching in the park I encountered someone who loves to draw trees as much as I do. I asked him for pointers on how to get the colors - the yellows and greens and browns - of the plane tree on the paper. "Keep working on it," was his answer.