After examing the spine and the vertabrae, I decided that I wanted to do a series of charcol drawings of them. I felt that it would be a good experience to do these drawings on a large scale. I wanted to use paper that was off white, as I felt that white would be too stark. I got a large strip of brown paper, the kind used for wrapping parcels, from the materials store. The paper measures (at a guess!) aprox. 5foot in lenth and aprox 2foot in width.
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| Drawing 1 |
The 4 drawings, are to be viewed as a series, each one is a development of the last. I began the first drawing by trying to capture the bear shape of the spine. With the next drawing I tried to develop this further by adding in a few more details. And so on went the process untill drawing 4, the drawing which is fully developed. I used only charcol and my fingers to shape the drawings. I rubbed the charcol on to the page then removed the areas of highlight with my hands. I wanted a blurry, unclear quality to result from these pieces. In all these pieces took about 2 weeks to compleate, so they were quite time consuming!
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| Drawing 3 |
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| Drawing 4 |
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Drawing 2
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I really enjoyed doing these drawings, I found it really exciting to be working on such a large scale.
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