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Hayfield Oak Leaves #4


“Hayfield Oak Leaves – Original” [12th August 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B and 8B, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2642 x 3116 pixels.

Following on from my previous series “Cluster of Oak Leaves” [CLICK link to see}, my new work entitled “Hayfield Oak Leaves – Original”, shown immediately above, is a digital Edition from a different pencil canvas composition than my ‘Cluster of Oak Leaves’ version.

The “Hayfield Oak Leaves” series you see on this blog page is produced from a photograph dated 1948hrs 3rd August 2022.

The photograph is from the same young Oak tree, yet different leaves. Additionally these latter series of works are in ‘Portrait’ rather than ‘Landscape’ as viewed on the canvas and photograph.

“Hayfield Oak Leaves – Green” [12th August 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, original drawing with H, HB, 4B and 8B, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2642 x 3116 pixels.

“Hayfield Oak Leaves – Green” [12th August 2022], shown immediately above, is a digital Edition of my original pencil canvas version, in Green.

“Hayfield Oak Leaves – Mirrored” [12th August 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, original drawing with H, HB, 4B and 8B, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2642 x 3116 pixels.

“Hayfield Oak Leaves – Mirrored” [12th August 2022] is a Mirrored digital Edition of my original pencil canvas artwork. The Original is shown at the top of this article.

‘Mirrored’ makes known the importance of conservation and reversal of manmade-climate-change/environmental-destruction for humanitarian reasons.

My favourite detail is the large leaf above my signature. In all three compositions this resembles a chameleon. This is pure chance. I did intentionally choose not to add further detail to this particular leaf, just because I liked it that way.

In ‘Mirrored’ this same leaf appears as four chameleons. For me I see moose, elephants, teddy bears and flying squirrels in ‘Mirrored’. All pure chance.

My artwork also has spiritual value. ‘Mirrored’ [unknowingly by me] is similar to slave-like symbology I have seen from the early 20th century. Signs used to help black Americans in the early 1900’s.

Therefore, to me, my artwork is directing us as human beings. Through nature itself – nature as a slave to mankind’s custodianship of Earth, to kindly provide it with safe passage from environmentally harsh human activities.

Here is the original photograph:

“Hayfield Oak Leaves – Photograph – unedited” [1948hrs 3rd August 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

I loved this composition upon composing the arrangement within my camera. I knew I needed to sketch this. “Hayfield Oak Leaves – Original” is produced within one hour. These pieces are personally exploratory, experimentation with the ‘idea of oak leaves’ in an Impressionist style.

In my works I hope to provide layers of my thought streams with you.

Please enjoy.

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Lavenders

“Lavenders” [7th August 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with HB, 4B and 8B pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3178 x 2694 pixels.

I made “Lavenders” within 50 minutes. Keeping the composition and drawing simple, yet beautiful on the canvas.

If you look very closely at the detail with a magnifying glass or zoom in on the artwork with a computer or smartphone, the pencil work looks superfine. I didn’t wish to add further detail to “Lavenders”. Primarily as the idea replicates dried flowers and plants pressings you see stored in horticultural books.

A dried pressings effect is exactly the way I wanted this artwork to look, having recently viewed same on social media.

Here is the photograph providing the inspiration:

“Lavenders – Photograph” [1st August 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

The photograph is wonderful.

Another conceptualisation I like about “Lavenders” is this artwork could be wheat. Wheat, barley and maize, oh how I love these crops! Completely fascinated by their beauty and taste as a food. In likeness to how people delight at the scent of lavender.

If someone asked me to describe “Lavenders” in one word, I would say… delicious.

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Hayfield Meadow in Summer

Hayfield Meadow in Summer
“Hayfield Meadow in Summer” [29th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B, charcoal stick and white paint-pen, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3215 x 2802 pixels.

I made “Hayfield Meadow in Summer” [29th July 2022] in approximately 50 minutes from start to finish.

Here is the photograph providing inspiration for my sketch:

“Hayfield Meadow in Summer – Photograph” [1218hrs, 6th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

You can see the long grasses in the photograph (shown above) covering the lower-half of the composition. This is true of my sketch. Furthermore, I used ‘spatial-definition’ as a specific style, an artistic representation within “Hayfield Meadow in Summer” and in some of my other pencil works too.

Spatial-definition is wherever <blank canvas space> or <background monochrome> is used to purposely differentiate and/or amplify imagery within a composition.  For instance, this might be the sky shown as a blank void; or blank canvas space between grasses.

Would you like to know my favourite details within “Hayfield Meadow in Summer”?

In no particular order:

  • I love the breezy looking grasses,
  • the way the tall foremost mid-left grasses lean towards each other, almost in harmonious reverence either side of the ‘Y’ shadow shape, and,
  • the dot-and-dash like leaves and bushes arrangements in the farground.

You know, I kind of feel this artwork is nothing yet everything. Not many individual objects, except for the tall grasses, have any real structure for being something specific. Yet, we look at the artwork and create a sense of what the landscape should look like.

Almost like a landscape we want it to be.

You can see ‘spatial-definition’ to a greater or lesser extent in the following works by me: “The Observant Squirrel”, “Second Mount Foremost Pathway“, “Rusted Cart of the Nature Reserve”, “Curved Tree at Wren’s Nest Pond – original”, “King James VI & I Oak of 1612 – Autumn Landscape”, “Evening at Hay Meadow – Original”, “Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – third version”, “Entrance to Wildflower Meadow”, “King James VI & I Oak of Meadows Midst” and “Hayfield Meadow in Summer” (shown in image).

Hope you enjoy.

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Cluster of Oak Leaves

Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow
“Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – third version” [26th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal stick, signed in black ink pen with blue chromatic halo effect on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3261 x 2812 pixels.

Sometimes I sit underneath this young Oak tree for shade from the midsummer sun. Third version took me approximately one and a half hours to produce.

I am very happy with this third version. First version, unsigned, second draft, is a Digital Artwork. In terms of quality I would be glad to include this as a Limited Edition print.

A new poem inspired from these Cluster Oak Leaf artworks:

“Bind yourself to the Twig,
Breathe your roots to the Fig,
Cluster Leaves to the Vine,
Sing your Way, sublime.

Dance your life to Peace,
Let beration cease,
Liberate wheated sheaf,
Happily half to Meet.

Tune your heart,
To Waterfalls beat,
Find the Love you seek,
Whence good you shall keep.”

– by Matt The Unfathomable Artist – Copyright © 26th July 2022.

“Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – first version – Digital Artwork Edition only” [20th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital Artwork image 3154 x 2745 pixels.

I really like “Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – first version – Digital Artwork Edition only” [20th July 2022] and would happily make limited print editions. Personally I believe, should I ever do so, official authenticated Print Editions of First Version will become as valuable as the canvas Third Version..

.. by reason that my First Version is irreparably damaged. The first and second versions are both canvas, unsigned partly-incomplete works. However, I would personally sign the First Version Limited Print Editions.

The second version is a quick study only, I was not happy with its proportion:

“Cluster of Oak Leaves – unfinished, second study” [25th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital image 3204 x 2730 pixels.

FInally, here is the original photograph for this series of artworks/studies:

“Cluster of Oak Leaves in Hayfield Meadow – Original Photograph” [1940hrs, 4th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

For photographers viewing this image – F1.9 1/313s 3.60mm ISO 40 from my smartphone camera. Nice depth of field, with wonderful macro detail.

Interestingly, I made the ‘lower stalk’ part of the composition for the third version (below the leaves, mid-lowest centre in the photographic image). In fact, the two foremost lowest leaves you see are actually at the very end of its branch. The branch itself is at the mid-upper-centre of the image, vertically represented.

To my knowledge this is a young Quercas Robur [English Oak], approximately some twelve to fifteen feet tall. Its tree trunk is not even to that of a mature elephant, I should say. Quite in contrast to its mighty King James VI & I Oak of 1612 in nearby field proximity, link to photographs of the latter, larger Oak here Conservation – Local Nature Reserve.

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Conservation – Local Nature Reserve

‘Ancient Oak circa 1612 – Height & Breadth’  – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Ancient Oak circa 1612 – Sun Rays’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Ancient Oak circa 1612 – Canopy’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Ancient Oak circa 1612 – Trunk’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #1’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #2’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #3’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #4’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Third Field Views #5’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Oak Trunk View #1’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

 

‘Local Nature Reserve – Oak Trunk View #2’ – Photography [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

Dear Readers I’m hoping your thoughts find beautiful views through my series of Local Nature Reserve images artistically arranged for your nature loving enjoyment.

Very best, Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

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