Observational Drawings

There are three observational drawings on this blog, these three were most probably my best, as they are so bright and vivid. This is because of the media and technique I have used. On this piece to the left I have firstly drawn on an A5 piece of card with a sharpie and other pens to get really strong and bold colours and shapes, that show the viewer what the piece is meant to represent, which is what the fruit is truly like. Once the sharpie had dried I then covered the whole page in quink ink, then I used bleach to take away the quink ink and reveal through to see the bright colours from the sharpie. I really like this because you can't see the whole picture and what is underneath completely, which is a really nice effect. 

Here is another piece using sharpies, however with this one I decided to not use the quink ink and bleach, because when I was  creating the last piece I was worried about ruining the first piece when I added the quink ink, because I thought that the bold colours from the sharpie made the piece look very exciting and different to what I had produced before and that the brights colours work well with the pomegranate.

To the left is another one of my studies and one of the last observational drawings. The media I have used for this is fine liner and water, I firstly drew the fine liner on by drawing the dark tonal areas and the detailed areas. Then I applied the wash onto the piece of card using a small brush to control the areas that the wash will cover, for example in the dark tonal areas I have used more fine liner and more wash to make the area darker. When the wash hits the fin liner ink the ink automatically turns blue and purple because of the pigment in the ink. I really like this effect because of the small tint of colour involved and it adds a new layer over the just black and white drawing.