The task is to use watercolours to create stripe patterns based on the observation of a collection of glass vessels.
Perhaps because of the lovely qualities of light in the glass, I found this task beautifully relaxing, like a genie I entered the watery world and searched for comparisons. Using a white paper back ground and base meant the for the first 3 examples I observed the subtleties of green and blue glass tints and how they changed due to thickness of glass or overlaps.Strip of stripes 1 and 2 – observing the obvious tones and aiming to record intensity and proportion.
Strip 3 looking even closer at the laying down bottle(whisky!) little reflections of the city scape are found hiding in the base.
I changed my perspective for strip 4 and 5 to investigate the reflected (refracted?) colours further.
My palette displayed the observed colours very well.