Wet as a Tap!
Rosalie is our first submission this week. She tells me that she has been keeping very busy doing a Zoom botanical course plus some private pieces for family and herself. She has sent me a few of these works to see and has been producing some great art. She found a bit of time to do our prompt this week and has created a great observational work of her dripping garden tap. Using a 4B pencil and a paper stump on 300gsm Fabriano Hot Press she has captured the metallic look and shine very well. I see a bit of camera distortion that has affected her perspective a little in this photo, but I can tell that her shapes and recession are pretty good. This is a free hand work, no tracing of the object. It is good to see the tonal range she has achieved with the single 4B pencil and how she has used the paper stump to work in the softer tones. The little white highlights on the handle edges and other parts of the tap, as well as the droplets, give the work a third dimension and reality.
A garden tap is a deceptively difficult thing to draw. It is something you see everyday and may not consider it interesting or even think it a boring subject. But the intricacies of the shapes are quite fascinating and tricky draw. Ovals, cylinders, bends and flats all have to work together and have the correct perspective for each part. As well, because it is metal the surface reflections have to be positioned correctly with the right tonal gradiants. On top of that, Rosalie has thrown in a few water drops just to make things more fun! As I am fond of saying, there is always something to draw around you - anything can be a subject. And Rosalie has done that and created a wonderful study of a complex object. Well done!
'Garden Tap' by Rosalie
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