Course work: Finally finished (I think) the colored pencil drawing of fruits and vegetables, which is fairly satisfactory considering my limited experience with the medium. If I were going to do it again, I would transpose the red pepper and the reddish-purple pear, as the latter loses conspicuity in the shadow of the other items. A total of about seven hours of drawing time was required for this approximately A4 drawing: I dread the forthcoming colored pencil drawing on A2 paper.
Did three preliminary marker drawings for the next part of the exercise. Two included three yellowish pieces of fruit and one green one. I found that the limited number of colors I have available, and the inability to blend them on ordinary drawing paper made differentiating between the lemon, the pear, and the banana possible only by shape. I then switched to some more color-differentiated fruits with somewhat better results. Blending is still not successful.
Reading:
Bernard Chaet The Art of Drawing (3rd Ed)
Harcourt College Publishers, Orlando, Florida, USA, 1983
Pp 79-112
Personal Sketchbook work: Did a little more work on the seemingly-endless colored pencil project workbook project started on 25 December.
Total time: 1 hour 21 min
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