More mark making.

On the advice of my tutor I’ve carried on experimenting with mark making concentrating mainly on charcoal but with some deviation into soft pastels and ink.

Charcoal crushed into pva glue,  smudged charcoal and white gouache. The crushed charcoal gives a wonderful textured black and reminded me of rocks and ash the white whilst it looks a little mountainy was actually me trying to express my emotions at the time I guess I was feeling a little “spikey”.

Another approach to crushing charcoal this time powder directly onto paper.

More charcoal mark making.

A3 drawing of an aubergine and a pineapple. Charcoal and white pastel on brown paper.

I thought the differences in texture were fun to play with and also the idea of losing detail as pineapple goes into shadow.

Found that using a cotton bud to blend charcoal almost feels like painting and allows really soft feel.

Going forward if I were to do this study again I would do several more smaller studies to explore the texture of the pineapple in more depth.

A few soft pastel explorations.

Using soft pastel over an online betting advert printed in the newspaper. The contrast between the soft pastel flames and the sharp edges of the pattern in the jacket was interesting to me. There are supposed to be gold coins falling from the mug (his cup runneth over) I also incorporated the Loyalty’s Dead blurb as it seemed to fit the images overall idea.