For this exercise I used some kitchen utensils, three canisters and the kettle. I took a photo for reference. I was more concerned with the overall shapes and trying to draw these accurately. I decided to add artistic license in regard to the colours. My kitchen is mainly in creams and greens. I chose to work on a toned grey background and to make use of this to tone with the other colours.
I worked from the plan I drew up below. It was important to capture the light and dark areas including the shadows. After drawing my outline of shapes I felt the composition needed to be a bit more balanced. I decided to use a deeper block of colour in the foreground. I began to shade in. I used oil pastels and conte crayons. Again this media is new to me. I began to get used to how the colours could be blended together. The ight mainly fell on the top of the objects and on parts of the front. Shadows were at their feet. I also created darker shades inbetween the objects. To apply the colour I used a range of cross hatching and used both the pointed end and the side of the crayons. I worked rigourously and began to enjoy the spontaneity of the crayons. The grey background acts nicely as a splashback and the block of horizontal colour in the foreground does serve to help balance and add harmony to the colour tones. The lid on the canister is silver/aluminium so it was helpful to use the toned paper and just shade in some white. The dark shadows was my last task. 
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