I decided to work on the original sketch as a limited palette piece as the subject naturally seemed to have three colour types: blue for the sky, green for the trees and grass, brown for the man-made structures. I liked the intersections and angles of the objects and the slant of the ground. The tone …
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I enjoyed this exercise partly because I decided to work quickly and not labour the image. I left empty space (negative space) within the image and I think this helped improve the overall effect. I may have stopped too early – but I think this may be a way forward for me. Less is more. …
I quite liked the fabric in this version, but I wasn’t pleased with the flowers and the penned leaf stem over the mirror – too cartoony!. Hence I got frustrated and chose to abandon this version. The fabric was too flat and too heavy. Once Id overworked the table edge there was no going back!
Object 1 – Wire Wool Wire wool was quite hard to draw. Sharp edges, shade, reflection and shine are all through the object. I tried differend grades of pencil and drawing pens. Think the 5H pencil may be best? Object 2 – Wooden xmas tree This small xmas tree is refined, smoothed and machined, except …
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