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Wellll, it’s supposed to be a raindrop and the splashy ripples in a bit of an abstract way – oh please move swiftly on
With abject apologies to Sue, but I did do this sometime ago, after deciding appletrees weren’t for me. This isn’t very good and was done quickly (too quickly) and it doesn’t even have a poem attached to it either!!!! I have even more quickly done a 2nd Gravity and I’ll put that up next.
- Isaac Newton & the apple
Isaac Newton with a pained expression after the apple has bounced off his head. I did drop an apple on my head and it does bounce like this.
Sumo wrestler feels the effect of gravity
I was trying to think of an image which best exemplified gravity. I intitially thought of an elephant on the edge of a crumbling cliff contemplating the gravity of its situation. But then I came across a lovely picture of a sumo wrestler being thrown just before impact with the canvas, Rather than copy it exactly I tried to focus on the moment of impact and removed detail. I began to regret including the throwing wrestler but in the end he’s not too bad. I didn’t do any pencil sketching to keep it freer.
Waiting to fall
I thought that an apple tree would symbolise gravity. (As the Theory goes….) Just for you, Dave, here’s a scanned version of the same.
I read a bit about gravity before thinking what to do. 
It seems that rather than being a downwards force, gravity is a ‘together’ force. I wanted to show colours merging together, but of course, unless I could mould my paper into a bowl, it would always be a downwards the colours would merge. I then thought about rain pulled to earth by gravity. Sadly my rainy landscape looks messy, so I’ve included a more abstract representation.
