Make a reversible tree-and-pennant drawing

A reversible tree-and-pennant drawing gives one small image two intended orientations. Begin with a triangle, a short stem and a longer line. Upright, you can choose to read them as a tree, trunk and ground. Turn the same page halfway around, and consider the triangle as a hanging pennant, the stem as its cord and the longer line as its support. This is an original drawing exercise, without a promise that another viewer will recognize either scene.

Choose the two readings before adding detail

Name the two views for yourself: Tree and Hanging Pennant. These names state what you intend to explore. They do not describe a real tree, a flag installation or an existing artwork being copied. Keep both names beside the sketch while you work. A detail that belongs comfortably to one imagined object may create a question when you turn the page.

Use an available drawing surface for the first idea. The selected canvas offers below are optional shopping examples, not required materials or tested partners for a particular paint. This article develops the marks and their chosen meanings. Obtain the applicable instructions for any actual surface and medium before transferring a sketch into a finished physical work.

Give each mark a place

Imagine a plain rectangular drawing area with generous unmarked margins. Place a triangle near its center, with the point facing the top edge and its broad base running horizontally below that point. Leave room beneath the base for the next two marks. The triangle can remain an outline while you consider the design; the example does not require a particular pigment or filling technique.

From the center of the triangle's base, draw a short vertical stem downward. End it before reaching the lower edge of the drawing area. Then draw a longer horizontal line through that lower endpoint. Keep the line longer than the short stem and give it room on both sides. You now have three deliberately chosen elements: triangle, stem and line.

For the Tree view, call the triangle the canopy, the short stem the trunk and the longer line the ground. These are stylized roles assigned to this invented drawing. You are not illustrating a botanical specimen or claiming that every tree has this shape. The point of the first view is to establish the particular picture you intend to reconsider after a turn.

Turn the whole page without redrawing it

Rotate the entire sketch halfway around so the former bottom edge becomes the top. Keep every mark in place on the page. The longer horizontal line now sits above the triangle. A short stem extends downward from that line to the center of the triangle's broad upper edge, and the triangle's point faces down.

In this Hanging Pennant view, assign the line the role of an overhead support and the short stem the role of a cord. The downward triangle becomes the pennant. Nothing was added to create this second proposal. The three elements have different intended jobs because you changed the page's orientation. This remains a picture, with no instruction for making or suspending an actual object.

Look at the particular relationship between cord and triangle. In the selected design, the cord meets the middle of the broad upper edge. If your stem began somewhere else in the first view, the turned version will show that different attachment. Decide whether it belongs to the fictional pennant you want. You can change the drawing, but inspect the changed mark in the Tree view as well.

Read the actual canvas offers separately

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Try one detail in both views

Return to the Tree view and consider a single small circle inside the triangle. Before drawing several, decide what that one mark would mean in your imagined scene. You might choose a decorated tree, or you might prefer the original plain canopy. Neither choice is required by the three-element design.

Turn the page again. The same circle now sits in the pennant. You can choose to read it as a simple printed motif. If that is a second role you want, retain it. If the circle makes either view less interesting to you, leave it out of the selected version. This is a choice about your own picture, without reporting another person's recognition or preference.

Keep the first three-element sketch while making this alternative. A second trial lets you compare the actual plain and marked versions. Avoid describing a detail as an improvement merely because it took more time to draw. Choose the version that supports the two views you want to keep, and give the unused trial its own place.

Notice when a detail commits to one scene

Suppose you add a row of small grass-like strokes below the ground line in the Tree view. After the half-turn, those strokes appear above the overhead support in the Pennant view. Their location follows from the same marks turning with the page. Decide whether you want those strokes there. You do not need to invent a persuasive explanation for every mark merely to save the first version.

One available revision is to omit those strokes and retain the plain horizontal line. Another is to choose a different role for them in the second imagined scene. Work through the actual alternative before deciding. If the second role requires drawing extra objects you do not want, the simpler version may be the one you prefer.

You can also decide that the Tree view deserves those strokes and that this particular page will have only one intended orientation. That is a changed artistic goal, rather than a failed obligation to keep every sketch reversible. Keep the original two-view exercise identifiable so you can return to it separately if it still interests you.

Compare a centered stem with an offset alternative

Try a separate version with the stem closer to the right end of the triangle's base. In its Tree view, that becomes an off-center trunk by your own design. After the half-turn, the attachment appears toward the left of the pennant's upper edge. The page has carried the offset with it. Inspect that particular version instead of assuming it still has the centered arrangement described earlier.

You may prefer the offset in one view and the center in the other. That preference identifies a choice to make, rather than permission to call two different sketches one unchanged image. For the selected exercise, retain the centered version in both orientations. Save the offset trial separately if you want to explore another pair of intended objects later.

Follow a complete invented revision

Imagine Ada making this original three-element sketch. She chooses a tall triangle and a short centered stem, then turns the page and writes Hanging Pennant beside the second orientation. Ada adds one circle near the triangle's center. In her own intended reading, it can belong to either a decorated tree or a marked pennant.

She next tries the small ground strokes on a separate version. After turning that version, she decides she does not want the resulting marks above the support line. Ada keeps the circle version without the ground strokes. This fictional outcome describes one author's selection; it reports no completed real artwork, audience test or generally superior composition.

At the end, Ada has one selected page and one rejected detail trial. The selected drawing contains the triangle, centered stem, longer line and circle. Both orientation names still refer to that same set of marks. She has not quietly used the plain tree for one view and the more elaborate pennant from another sheet for the other.

Keep the nearby drawing and equipment questions distinct

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The canvas easel compatibility guide checks a workpiece against tray, clamp and other actual equipment limits. A pleasing two-view sketch supplies none of those answers. Keep a physical workholding decision with the actual canvas, easel and applicable instructions.

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Retain one drawing with two chosen orientations

Look at the selected page upright, then after its half-turn. Identify the triangle, stem and longer line in each view, along with any detail you retained. Keep the same physical marks in both comparisons. You can note which edge you initially called the top, without making that label part of the picture.

A reversible tree-and-pennant drawing ends with one exact image and two interpretations you have chosen to explore. Another viewer may name something different. Keep that possibility open while retaining the particular tree, pennant and detail decisions that make this version yours.