On Friday night I still had not decided on what to blog about this week. I am working on a few projects and have not been sketching daily in my Moleskine Watercolour sketchbook. And then it came to me – I had a kitchen bench full of purchases I had made this week.
A few years ago, when I did not have many art projects and ventures I seemed to have sketched everything I bought or received. I do not do this regularly any more as there is just not enough time in life.
My kitchen benches had bags from stores where I had stocked up on badly needed kitchen equipment. A visiting friend had pointed out the abysmal state of my frying pan and knives (of course, I knew this but just never got around to replacing them) and I had recently broken my last remaining red wine glass.
So here are my new knives, and frypan and red wine glasses.
I arranged them on the kitchen bench (with not too much thought involved) and then started sketching the outlines in the colour of the objects. In this case it was straightforward, as the colours were grey and black and red. I am glad that the knife was red as it adds a bit of interest to the page !
This minimal colour range meant that I later had to make choices to differentiate between the different objects and surface planes within each object. I used four Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils colours
- Schwarz Black
- Payne’s Grey
- Cool Grey IV
- Deep Scarlet Red
and Schwarz Black coloured pencil (for fine hard black lines)
I enjoy drawing so much more than I enjoy cooking ! I love to draw food, but do not get any appreciation from cooking , or even eating some of it.
I have been scanning all of my drawings since October 2008 to my Flickr page and have put some into themed Albums. Click through the links below to see them
ENJOY !!