My first subject was an apple rescued from the bin. It had been thrown away with one bite taken out of it because it was going bad. My first sketch was done using a black biro. I love using biros to draw with, probably because it's what I use when I doodle in boring meetings at work.
I turned the apple on its side and drew it using a graphite pencil.
Day 3
You probably can't tell what these are. The cylindrical object is a stub of wax crayon and the roundish shapes are drawings of a pebble seen at different angles. I used a wax crayon for these.
Day 4
I went back to my apple (it looks pretty disgusting now!) I looked through gardening magazines trying to find an article about apples with no luck. I then thought about doing "apple of my eye" and looked for pictures of eyes for a background. The headline "Why can't you resist?" jumped out at me since it reminded me of Adam and Eve. I also remembered seeing an article on the Eden project in one of the gardening magazines and so I put them together with my partly eaten apple. I thought I would use a wax crayon followed by a wash to take the "resist" theme further. The page I used had a textured backgound which made it difficult to use the crayon - it kept breaking. And the strip of paper from the magazine resisted all attempts to use the crayon. So it's not the most brilliant drawing of an apple
A great idea Meg.I'm enjoying this and looking forward to each day.
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