I've wanted to scale up my drawings for years- in the fall of 2022 I took the leap. This drawing of the Satake Oak, a venerable neighborhood tree that is centuries old, is 5 feet high by 4 feet wide. I've studied and drawn this tree for years, and it has a compelling history as part of the city of Mountain View. It's the first tree in my series about Mountain View's historical elder trees- more to come on this topic!

It's a great pleasure to draw on this scale; I'm enjoying the physicality of it. It's very freeing somehow. I'm using soluble graphite and a combination of pencils: mainly Staedler-Mars Lumograph Black, and Derwent Sketching soluble graphite.

This work is still in progress and I hope to finish it by the end of this year.