Assignment 3: Waterloo Sunset

After doing this drawing I realise how short a two hour period can be. This piece requires further work but as the assignment was to work no more than two hours on the finished piece I felt I could blog it after that time had lapsed.

However, I shall work on it some more tomorrow afternoon. I feel it could benefit from a bit more contrast to give it a certain dynamism and gravitas.

I used slate blue mountboard and drew straight onto the surface with black white pink orange and brown pencil crayon.

Thinking about it about an hour on, I feel it could benefit from a little purple shading in the background to define it as seperate from the mid ground and foreground. Also, I wish I’d added a gull or some such coming into land on (the reinstated) Waterloo Bridge parapet in order to lend credence to the look of unexplained surprise on the woman’s face. Although, thinking again, she has the look of the persecuted about her – hinting at a less than salubrious underbelly to the pretty London scene.