Observational Drawing.
Here I studied some objects from home; I aimed to chose objects of various shape and texture. None of the objects had any relation to each other either. The candle was formed of glass for example, so I focussed on light and shade, whereas the hairbrush and feather clip were very textured so I could really work on experimentation with the colours. For the feathers I started off with a white ( all pictures drawn in coloured pencil by the way), and outlined all the stems of the feathers, then using a less pigmented white, grey and a black I added the feathers using short, sharp strokes to look lighter. I also used white oil pastel in some areas to make the feathers appear more dense.
When drawing the hairbrush I used a mix of browns and reds, with yellow ochre as my highlight colour. Here I used thicker, more blunt marks to create the bristles of the brush. Obviously when drawing an object, black and white came into a lot of use for darkening and highlighting areas, depending on the way the light was at each time. For example each curve of the shell was hit by light so the white was used to show this.
Overall I feel I drew the objects well, and gathered a fairly well collection of mixed objects. To improve I could a spent a little more time on some of the objects, and maybe included a few more to fill out the page a little better.
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