After another class session on ellipses (How hard can they be? hahaha), I came home and later sketched this small white pitcher.

I still struggle with sketching handles

I bought this pitcher Sunday afternoon. I thought it would present a challenge for me to sketch and, yes, it did.

Nice shape

All together now

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All my time spent on ellipses was in preparation to sketch the starfish. The point of all this was to learn about foreshortening. I’m ready to revisit the tone course in my next class.

A blurry starfish sketch

The elusive starfish

Two new shapes: the vase and the pitcher

Hmm, in my sketch it looks as if the vase is leaning a bit. Somehow I couldn’t see that while I was sketchnig or even when I took the photo. I only saw it when I copied the photo to my computer and looked at it on the big screen. Not to worry, I’ll be sketching it again and again and again.

The still life trio

Still Life In Charcoal 02