Natural forms

Natural forms (Pen and ink on sugar, manila, watercolour, and newsprint) – exploring shape, texture, scale, tone.

This week we were creating observational studies of natural forms.  We revisited last weeks introduction about looking at the shape of the object, rather than trying to draw what you think it looks like - leave dont often look how your mind percieves a leaf to look, due to theytype of tree, weathering etc.

We also used pen and ink.  This was an experimental session exploring marks we could make with a dip pen, and how the ink behaved on a range of different surfaces.  What happens if we work onto wet paper?  Or newsprint?

We also craeted a continuos line drawing using a fine line.  We used water afterward to create tone, taking advantage of the inks solubility.  This excercise will also help you with your sketching technique.  When you are sketching quickly, the less the you take your pen / pencil away form the page the better!