Painting Reflective Object

I choose to paint the top of a pan considering that it was the best reflected object in my apartment. I enjoyed this project the most out of all the painting we have done this year. This was a fun challenging assignment that was based off preciseness. I further enjoyed the fact that we where to incorporate a still life object and then paint it's reflections. This assignment had more depth and learning to it.

I once did a project slightly similar to this my junior year in high school when I had to draw the reflections of a glass cup. We drew with a white colored pencil on a brown 8 X 10 sheet of construction paper. Both of these projects have one thing in common and that is focusing on light. In these two types of of objects, the top of pan and glass cup, light is reflected upon them where the piece for a still life becomes a lot more complex to draw. Practicing to draw still life's with reflected objects trains your eye to see the detailed imagery that light makes up in its reflections.

After completing this project I took with me the practices of drawing a proportional object, studying the light that is reflected upon its surface and technic when applying the different types of grays. The grey project was very fulfilling where a was able to get a lot of it, even though it was time consuming I did not mine because the outcome was interesting.