I started with a white support, then roughly worked out my still life in line, marking out were I was going to leave white paper for the brightest highlights, then covered most of the support in charcoal dust (that I shaved from a stick), then worked it round the paper (in the areas I wanted) with a paint brush, after that I put in the darks in blocks of tone with a charcoal stick, then took some more out with a rubber, then used my fingers to blend the it all together, I continued to work on it, putting in more shadows and taking more out and so on, then found I had some compressed charcoal and put some of that in, in areas. Then I had to stop, for I had been working on it for quite some time, but I feel I could have worked on it more, (if I had had the time.)
I dislike the peace of art work, and found it hard going, not unpleasant to do, but hard. I don't like working in charcoal nor do I like my end results, I find it hard to get much rang of tone, compressed is a bit better but not much. Probably just my incompetence and inexperience with it. Also I got lots of the shapes wrong. it also strikes me now that, although there were a good deal of reflected light and shadows in the set up I didn't emphasize them enough.
I will try not to use my fingers on a charcoal picture again....I dislike the affect it producers.
I worked on a large-ish scale, which I find hard.
I tried to use some of the methods used by Odion Redon which I learned about.
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