I know, I know! This is supposed to be an Urban Sketching blog, and yet here I am talking about drawing nature. The thing is – here is the thing – I am going off at a bit of a tangent in this ...

Can We Please Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers? The scientific reasons why the latest architectural drawing fad is fantasy. By Tim De Chant. March 08, 2013 4:37 PM.

He started drawing trees because of their complexity; the impressions often revealed features Bosbyshell didn’t see before. In one drawing, cross-hatched cuts marked the tree.

Her simple, untitled pencil drawing of two trees and a fence took first place among 47 entries in the 10th annual Congressional Art Competition, sponsored in conjunction with the Baum School of Art.

Tim, to be fair, is worried about trees on skyscrapers.These two towers, one 260 feet tall, the other 367, are tall, but not crazy tall. So maybe there's a chance they'll make it.

The Menominee Nation planted eastern white pine trees in Milwaukee as a symbol of peace and unity. The trees were planted as part of a week of events for Earth Week and Arbor Day.

De Chant kindly asks architects to “please stop drawing trees on top of skyscrapers.” From his post: Want to make a skyscraper look trendy and sustainable? Put a tree on it. Or better yet, dozens.

Don the goggles and meet a CU student who’ll let you hold a holographic sun in your hand. Dezell Turner wants to use augmented reality to map trajectories in space. Then, the stories trees can tell.