Week 4

From drawing the Coca-Cola bottle this week I have realised that I like studying glass as it creates interesting reflections.When I used coffee staining in my mixed media piece, I liked the aged effect that it gave. I firstly put a wash of it in the shape of the bottle and used it to add flecks of tone.

Looking around the Museum of Natural History, although animals and fossils do not interest me, they provided patterns that I liked. For example, the skin of a snake and the striking colours of different minerals.  I also think that I am going to find something military related over the weekend to draw as I want to look at this part of my family. I want to start studying a new object next week as I have looked at the bottle a lot now. I need to incorporate something else that represents me into my work. At the moment, I like looking at mark making and I think I may look at abstract work in the future, depending on what route I end up taking. I would like to experiment with it for sure.

Going on into Pitt Rivers, I seen a recycled piece that I liked and decided to draw. It was a lamp made from a misprinted tin in India. I think the shape of the glass caught my attention and it was this that made me realise that I want to look at glass objects more.