Surreal interior perspective

This is a challenge to work on our skills with perspective.

My first attempt, the advice was to make it larger, and give more detail to the object on the table. Also that the pear needed to have foreground to appear to be visually in the interior

Although these appear to be the same size, the print below is actually more that twice the size of the first sketch..

A topography of detail

We were set a challenge of completing a hugely magnified drawing.  I do hope that you can see the pistachios in this drawing/painting.

Mark making

The set up for this exercise was a still life with a light underneath a jumble of items, stools, lamp stands, chairs, an old vacuum cleaner.  Our challenge was to examine the negative spaces and use short marks to create tonal variations.

A still life abstraction

Our challenge - the problem that we had to solve, was to pick 3 to 5 elements of a jumbled, huge still life, and create new imagined textures for the surfaces in an abstraction.

Still life, with hanging items

It was a mistake not to include the ropes that were used to hold up the ladder - it really is floating uncomfortably.  I was trying to work more quickly and block in tonal areas.  It wasn't very satisfying, I still struggle with controlling the charcoal and smoothing out strokes.

Model - quick sketches

Our first model.  I loved doing these quick sketches.  The last two are actually contour drawings and took a bit longer.

Mapping, Representation and Recollection assignment

I did this with layers.  This is the first representation:

It is the simple view, my personal water cycle in a simple form following the water.  The second representation shown below has "revealed" details - my house, the water treatment plant the wastewater treatment plant.

Boxes, sheet and black plastic

Again in class, working with perspective as well as tone.  Charcoal and incomplete.  Ouch - that front box just didn't work!

Boxes, tone and perspective

Our first in class pencil drawing.  Incomplete.

Sight-sized drawing

An outdoors class assignment to practice using proportions in our drawings.  I much over estimated what I could draw in this exercise, and ended up concentrating on just one little part of the drawing.