Observational Studies

Observational Studies

I decided to do a tonal study of this shell so I could portray its unusual shape and details.

For my first observational study, I used colouring pencils to portray a mussel shell commonly found on our coast line.

I used colouring pencils to create this piece of a crabs claw. I loved the colours shown in the claw and felt that these colours would be great to show in an observational study and to use later on in experimentation.

                                                                                                                                                               

For this piece, I used watercolour paints to create an image of a crab which I found on my coast line. I loved using watercolours for this piece and felt that they were a great medium to use for portraying intricate detail.

The vibrant colours of this fish attracted me to this piece. I chose watercolours, as I felt that they could portray the detail and the bright colours.







I decided to move onto looking at coral reefs, instead of just looking at creatures from my coastline. For this piece, I looked at a floral coral reef plant for which i used watercolours.








 I used colouring pencils for this piece to the various different, unusual colours shown on this plant found on a coral reef. I liked the twig like feature this plant had, and also its bright colours, which is why I decided that this would be a good piece to draw.

I used aqua-tone, watercolour pencils to create a piece showing the underwater flowers commonly found on coral reefs. I felt that the colours and shaped of these flowers would be good to depict in experimentation, later on in my project.

Monoprints

I enjoyed using the technique of mono-printing, as I felt that it allowed me to to show excellent detail of various drawings, using brightly coloured inks.
I even used paper which had blue and green ink on it to mono-print over, because I felt it gave a vibrancy to the piece.
I also enjoyed being able to not only use mono-printing to line drawings, but to also add tone and texture to my pieces.