For this exercise I took four textures from around my home and depicted each one using frottage, pencil drawing and ink. The textures I used were wood, the underside of lino, a woven plant pot and a decorative tin bowl.
I was interested in which medium would best articulate the feeling of the texture rather give the most accurate depiction. I had expected frottage to give a more immediate feeling of the textures but this wasn’t really the case, in all except wood the feeling of the texture comes across really well in the more simplified ink pictures, as well I think as the more accurate detailed pencil drawings. I particularly like the repeated patterns of the woven plant pot and underside of lino, these would look good scaled up – I can imagine using them as an element of a big colourful screenprint at some point!
Flora OCA drawing 1 