Sketchbook as Object part 2: Drawing with tea bags 2.4

 For this exercise I not only used teabags but I also used coffee and juice from cherries.

 

 I have used tea and coffee as a medium in the past and they are great alternatives to watercolour, the coffee particularly when dried could be built on with anohter layer and it doesnt weaken like watercolour would. I first allowed myself to experiement on two pages using a paint brush, tooth brush, piece of string, paper towels and my giners to smudge, draw dot all over. I didnt expect the cherry juice to turn out the colour it did, when first applied it was a storng pink but as ti dried turned a greyish blue which I really liked. I did find though that if I left the cherry juice to dry without dragging just dotting it it stayed pink. As for the tea it was a lot more washed out then coffee, I liked the subtleness compared to how dark or intense the coffee showed up. I played with the dark and light and layered it to see if it made different tones and such. Another thing I liked about this experiement was going back to it when it was completely dry and seeing how the colours had changed or softened.

I feel like you can see abit of expression on this page, its all messy but theres so many different marks and I like how some of the splashes have darker edges around them. Using a string dipped in coffee and dragging it across the page gave these rough and random swishes which I think looks cool becasue its so raw compared to say if I used a paintbrush which would be a lot more controlled. When dotting the cherry juice I made some drops more watery then others so they turned out blue and the less water I sued the colour stayed pink.

 I was excited to draw objects with the techniques I experimented with. Kepping the items simple I sued a tube of paint and a bottle of water.

I took a picture when they were still a bit wet and then later on when theyd fully dried just to see the colour difference and how they developed next to eachother.

I like how the coffee bleeds on this one and there are darker edged created. The blue biege and brown go nicely together. The washiness of it and limited detail feels calm, there are no solid lines where the object ends the shape is'nt defined and details like the words on the tube are just smudges. 

For the bottle how every I focused a lot more on detail even adding some fine liner which is effective.

I wanted a lot more cherry juice in this one becasue it kind resembles the colour of the bottle and how it is see through. I also used some dots as the bottle had a similar texture and the light an dark parts I either left to act as a reflection or built on top of it to make it darker. This turned out great, me not using to much pen meant it still had that organic feel rather then drawing every single line and texture to make sure someone knew exactly what it is.