My Favorite Things/ 2022

For this piece we had to pick out a few items that had meaning to us. We then had to pose each item together and then draw it using the reductive process. This process involves covering the whole page in your medium and then erasing away at it until you are satisfied with the image. This piece was done at home and was lit by a studio light that I had borrowed from my dad. Each object has a special meaning to me from my sketchbooks, to the mallets I used in high school.

• Medium- Charcoal
• Size 18×24

Cowposal/ 2022

In this project we used the technique of using value to define negative space. We had to us the process of reductive drawing. This is when you put material down on the page completely covering up the paper and the erasing and or smudging away the material to create the image. This project required a lot of patience to match the value with how the lighting was set up. The light kept changing every session, but I tried my best to keep it consistent.

• Medium- Charcoal
• Size 18×24

Big leaf/ 2022

With this piece we practiced the process of reductive drawing to draw a still life of a collard green leaf. Reductive drawing is the process of drawing where material like graphite, charcoal or pastel is used to cover a surface of a canvas and then the drawing is made by the removal of the media by erasing or smudging the piece. We had a few of the studio lights on and the shades on the window opened slightly. This helped to make the lighting have a lot of contrast which helped to define the shapes of the leaf. Using charcoal I laid out a dark layer and used a sponge and eraser to lighten the areas I wanted to. This project was more about using the different values to make shapes instead of drawing them in.

• Medium- Charcoal
• Size 18×24