The Curator - Week Two

This week I was back at the Hunterian Museum. It was our second week of drawing and this week we were working with pencil.

In order to make up for last week, where I accidentally did some pencil drawing on our fineliner day, I did a fineliner drawing as well. 

I fortunately remembered to bring my A3 cartridge paper to draw on instead of just drawing in my journal. 

I used some of my watercolours to colour my backgrounds that I was working on. I also bought a new better looking journal that is bigger. 

Our lecturers decided to take a look at our work and so they told me I should place my drawings from my smaller sketchbook in as pages by themselves so that I have different paper sizes in order to make the journal more interesting. I like the idea but actually taping them in was hard to do. The tape kept on sticking to my fingers.

I enjoyed using pencil in that I can alter as I wish. I also like using pencil as I can get different weights of line however I do love the crispness of using a pen. I can't decide between the two.

On our second class of the week for the Curator we were supposed be doing collages and watercolours but I prefer watercolours so I spent most of my time doing those.

I really love using watercolours but I took the opportunity to use my promarkers as I love the effect of the differing weights of line. I experimented with using them and then going over the results with an ordinary fineliner although I did find out that if you use black fineliner onto black promarker there is no difference and so it won't show up at all. 

I mixed using watercolours with pen and did some drawings using watercolour first then adding pen or vice versa. I also had some with only watercolour.

I also found a good name for my project. "Gift's from the Underworld" The cabinet of minerals behind me was titled this and I had been reading about Greek Myths this week so it stuck in my head.

This week is our last week of drawing at the Hunterian during class time.

After class I went into Glasgow to Remnant Kings and bought two twenty centimetre strips of nice patterned fabrics for the Hunterian project. I also looked through the remnants bin at the front of the store for some fabrics that I liked. I think I ended up spending around thirty pounds.

Bobbi Jean Shields

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