Exercise 2.4 - Drawing with Tea Bags

For this exercise I chose a feather collected from the park, some jute string, a philips head screw driver and green tea.

We were to use our chosen materials to create a simple sketch after we had experimented to see what marks we could get with them.

I used red and black poster paint as I had it to hand to draw with and found it quite interesting how the different objects made different marks. My favourite was the jute string, which gave a really grungy effect which would work well as a layer for a drawing or painting but isnt so easy to draw actual objects with.

I liked the marks of the screw driver but chose the feather for my final sketch. I wanted to incorperate some collage as well. I had had a flyer come through the door with a pattern I've been really into on the model and so I decided to cut it up and include it on my page. I started off with putting it under my flap created from the previous exercises in Part 1 and then cut it up to try to create a cup shape.

Screwdriver

Jute string in black, feather in red.

Green Tea.

I did the green tea all over the page and allowed that to dry. I really like the effect it gives and wanted to draw over it. I used the feather and black paint to sketch a cup.

These techniques would be good to develop further into my sketches later on in the course. I think the mix of green tea and the feather make a good team and would be really good to use in landscape sketches. I also think the green tea would work well with fine liner pens as the green tea looks a lot like watercolour and the pen lines would really stand out against the softness of the wash of tea.