There are certain staples for an artist to hone her skills on. Still life with bottles, without bottles, bowl of fruit and self portrait. Today its the former. ( you can blame Ruth for this!)
Find some interesting bottles, three is enough, more if you want. (Uneven numbers always best remember)
Handle them and consider proportions, colour, irregularities, lables.....
Get paper. Note its edges, or draw your own parameters. Envisage how the shapes of the bottles will fit, to advantage, within your framework, thinking about negative shapes and positive shapes. If you overlap your bottles of course you get new shapes. If you have a light source you have shadows. If you stand the bottles on a mat or paper you get a ground line. Don't obsess over reflections, just enjoy them if they look interesting. Remember its often good to hint at what you see rather than over do it........
Consider a ground line, it gives stability to an image, will you include a background? its all your choice.
And materials? well remember these are supposed to be quick non onorous works. If you find you are able, or want to put more time in thats ok, but you don't need to.
Scribble sketching with pen, water soluable crayon. Watercolour, even pastel (yuch!) or pastel over the watercolour? Or perhaps the same scraping technique we looked at last. What I particularly like about scraping paint is when the subtle vestiges of colour which normally you would not see become evident, and then the ease with which you can set up, or just imply straight lines.
So I very much look forward to seeing what you can do with this!
Incidentally I feel so much better today, thank goodness (Sunday) Paul getting on ok too, and thanks to all for good wishes and offers of help. We are managing well now I think, a little easier each day.....
Cheer me up with some lovely pictures please!
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