blue still life

This was my first work in our table series of drawings. The objects were wooden positive templates for producing moulds of machine parts.

The A2 sized piece is on watercolour paper which was stained with the blue watercolour paint, then the drawing was done using a skewer dipped in ink, and applied right-handed (I’m a lefty). I’m happy with the small touches of red, and the blue areas that break the shapes with multiple overlaid perspective. An important lesson in this piece was using a broken and frayed skewer, and rolling it while advancing perpendicular to the roll to apply a line texture over and over, sortof like repeated stencilling.