I looked at the still life drawing s and paintings of Giorgio Morandi
I appreciated the way he used simple objects as a mechanism to study colour and composition. It seems similar to the way Rachel Whiteread used simple everyday items to investigate surface.
I selected a jug,bowl,bottle and two cups, cleared the table and stuck an a2 pierce of paper on the window as I don’t have a large drawing board. Studying the composition I found it difficult to work out the composition so made a viewing window to help place the objects on the paper. 
As the paper was larger than I’m used to working I chose a chunky 6B graphite pencil, I feel that this drawing was reasonably successful as an experiment in composition, as I was standing up and looking down on the still life the ellipses were quite a prominent part of the drawing. I squinted to work out the highlights, shadows and mid tones. The objects are slightly floating on the page but it’s not a bad first attempt.
It was awkward leaning on the window and looking to the left at the still life so for the second drawing I taped the paper to the drop leaf of the table – landscape this time – by sitting on a stool I had lower viewpoint and this change the proportion of the composition. The top of the bottle is flat, the bowl elliptical and the cups have a little eclipse. I chose charcoal to create more tone areas. I haven’t used charcoal for ages , I enjoyed the process of smudging and worked quite quickly to cover the page. More successful to lay I think and less busy with less eclipses.
An even lower viewpoint – no eclipse at all on the cups, almost looking up at the objects , a mouse eye views
The birds were singing so loudly! I just had to respond to their joyful sound.i was drawn to use pastels and blend them with my fingers.warm rich tones.sunkissed.
I think that this is the composition that I will use, it is clean, familiar in that it is the height I would normally view the objects at – I hadn’t considered before that ones height would affect how an object is seen, but it’s obvious really! 
I find this composition very busy, your eye has to travel up and down with no clear pathway around the picture.
I like the transparency of the bottle and the more confident clean lines. I think that the cup ellipses are too much like two eyes. I wanted to try a portrait rather than landscape, I can’t say what but I prefer the landscape orientation, I think that it works better with the proportions of the shapes.
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