Week 3 - Composition Focus

Still Life Drawing focusing on Composition

This is a 40-minute sketch of a composition in which my group and I created. The aim and focus of this study was to concentrate on the composition of the relating objects.

This composition is well balanced with the objects not being all bundled up together but split up into two groups. These two groups of objects create a contrast of light and dark. The glass jars reflect the light creating transparent reflections and light shadows. This is also a very open area with these two objects being placed farther apart from each other and also the lines of the cloth being much more straight and open.

This differs from the other group of object which have a dark contrast with them being very dark objects. The area and composition in which they are in is also very closed. These objects are packed very close together allowing them to overlap one another. The cloth also has very short, sharp folds within it creating hard shadows within the cloth, which the objects are rested upon. The theme of the dark transition carries on throughout the stools, which lay underneath the table. On the left hand side the majority of the stool cannot be seen because it is covered with the pale cloth, which brightens up this whole side of the drawing. However, on the left hand side the stool is visible continuing with the dark contrast.  This contrast is broken up by the pale tabletop, which is pleasing to the eye as the contrast of light and dark work very well together.

The pale material of cloth that spreads across the entire table connects these two groups. This joins them all together as one composition rather than two.

If I were to do this drawing again I would make sure I got all my measurements correct as I feel that the glass jars are not in well proportion to one another. These two objects were supposed to be the same size however, I got my proportions wrong and as a result of this one jar looks considerably smaller than the other.