While most of this sketch was done with Lamy Safari fountain pen and black carbon ink...the "twigs" started to get away from me. They had so much "lace-like" quality that wasn't happening with a thicker pen nib.
So I waited until I got home to finish it using watercolor paint in a "dip pen". First I decided to paint a faint wash of blue gray and some slight tinges of pink behind the tree. Using an old fashioned dip pen and gray mixtures of wc, I just added the tiny twigs.
This nicely shaped tree was on a busy street corner in Mt. Dora. Under it the planted flower box was wildly blooming but in contrast the tree itself had not yet responded to spring.
All in our own time.
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