When I decided on this subject I had a picture in my mind (as I so often do) of the finished painting. However my journey to capture this on my paper took considerably longer than I could have imagined!
I didn’t want the plums to outshine the birds or visa versa but rather wanted each subject to be enjoyed individually but also compliment each other.
Drawing on a wonderful childhood memory I have of picking plums from our trees in the back yard (eating more than I put into the basket) I started on my sketch, I had to include our old paling fence after all this was our ladder to reach a little higher into the tree once all the lower branches had been
