Week 5

I looked at using mixed media again to represent my object. This time incorporating coffee to add tonal value, along with biro and graphite. I think that I could've used the biro more in the bottom half of the bottle as there isn't much contrast. Although I tried to use the coffee granules to add tone, I don't think this was very effective as applying them with my hands didn't provide much precision. However, the outcome reminded me of the fizz in this drink and so it could be used to reperesent this if I was to look at carbonated drinks.

With this, I tried to portray movement. I focussed more on capturing the shape of the bottle rather than the tone, because in movement the shape is more likely what you would see. By drawing this at different angles, applying less pressure with the pencil, it looks like the bottle is being shaken. However, when it came to drawing the bottle in a darker way, i think it would've been easier to use graphite rather than a pencil. I was surprised by the outcome of this as I didn't expect it to portray movement so well just by layering drawings at different angles.

I abstracted the curvature of the bottle and responded to it, using graphite newspaper, white emulsion and coffee. I used a lot of curved marks, but I think that this piece is still too focussed on the bottle rather than an emotional response to it.

I went onto responding more to the bottle and created more contrast by using black emulsion and biro. I began by mapping out sections of shadows on the page, and went onto layering the sharp edges of the bottle top over it. I used the harsher shapes of the bottle and the curved line to juxtapose each other in the composition. Overall, this piece portrays confusion and conflict, as the layers of different marks create a sense of turbulence.

I chose another object to study, and decided to do a pencil drawing first. This bottle is one that we (myself, brother, Auntie and Uncle) found on the old site of a factory when walking to my Grandad and Grandma's house one evening. The site was covered in shattered bottles, this being the most intact one we could find, and broken clay pipes. The drawing doesn't capture the shape of the bottle very well, as it isn't explicit that it is round. Also the layers of glass cannot be seen, perhaps a mixed media study will be able to capture this better.