I loved @Snillsparv’s apple palace. I love the shape of apples and in the West they have become connected with the Tree of Knowledge so it was irresistible. I decided to use it for another Javascript structure the express app.
In one’s imagination there is no implicit scale, an apple can be as big as one likes, but for all my talk about infinite detail in the miniature, well… apples are pretty smooth. There really weren’t enough distinct features for me to attach all the bits I needed. The plan I came up with is a bit ambitious for my skills but it was too much fun not to try and it came out well enough for the purpose. Simpler would have been a cross section through the apple. I thought I had gotten this idea from a Magritte painting. He did a lot of apples. But I can’t find it.
The graphite is very fragile, this kind of picture gets a bit overworked. I may have to try pen. Had some bad luck with the fixative which made splotches. Kind of plausible on an apple, but I have to talk to the art supp store.
Again, there’s a lot going on and some of these objects warrant their own drawings to display contents. There’s also small stuff. The branch upper right with the birds collects all the notifications. I had a lot of fun. Fixative was not kind to the two little ewes standing to the right of the central post.
It’s a song: "I ain’t got no ewes for that red rocking chair…"
