Drawing and Light

For this project I started by wrapping an object in various clear plastic materials and then unwrapping the object and projecting it's shadow against the wall. I chose a mechanical whisk for my object because I thought it would produce an interesting shadow. When I was happy with my projected image I started to draw it. The idea of the project was to recreate the tonal layers of the image and it's structure through various drawing methods.

To begin with I struggled and became frustrated with my drawing because I could not capture the textural quality of the crumpled up plastic of the object and shadow. Eventually I finally thought I'd managed to find a way of expressing it through using geometric pencil lines and layering them over and over the tonal quality of the smeared charcoal. In the end I was happy with the overall composition.

Charcoal and Pencil on cartridge paper.

My idea for using geometric lines had come from love of Constructivism and the drawings of Alexander Rodchenko.

I also produced some prints inspired by the same artist.