Christmas ink and watercolor

Above: after many different ways of trying to depict the oak tree out my window, I ended up combining watercolor, ink, pastel pencils & colored pencils. Earlier version. My challenge was to focus on this young tree so weighed down by ice & snow, an image that was not inherently pleasing to me, & was even distrubing as there are many broken branches of local trees on the ground. As described in my previous post, I was also caught by the chaos of lines & forms that I saw, & the variety. There…