It is so true that drawing, even if it's from a photo, helps to reach an understanding of an object in a more thorough way than just looking. I was also interested in the scale and proportions. Alabastra are generally quite small, made to contain perfume, and my drawings are most likely larger than the original objects, so the handles appear larger in comparison to those on a larger vase.
I had a bit of a digression this week when having failed to find any fluted pots around the house to draw for my nasturtium tangles, I started an internet search and got totally side-tracked by the beauty of Hellenistic glass alabastra. I thought the intricacy of the feathered patterns, although it doesn't catch the light in the same way as fluted forms, could perhaps work just as well, so I began tracing some on my iPad. While drawing the movement of the molten glass I noticed a the similarity to wheel-thrown pottery in the upwards anti-clockwise spiralling motion. I had to find out more about how the glass bottles were made, so off I went down a fascinating rabbit-hole. A YouTube video by Getty Museum proved most informative (I would never have known the core was formed with a mixture of dung, clay, sand and water!)
It is so true that drawing, even if it's from a photo, helps to reach an understanding of an object in a more thorough way than just looking. I was also interested in the scale and proportions. Alabastra are generally quite small, made to contain perfume, and my drawings are most likely larger than the original objects, so the handles appear larger in comparison to those on a larger vase. Comments are closed.
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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