Playing with food.

....And a few other things. 

I haven't had a drawing class in over a year. It's pretty crazy since I go to art school, I know. But because I had transfer credits from being in the Visual and Creative Arts program at Sheridan College, I got exempt from quite a few courses. That was fine and dandy. But last year things got all messed up with my schedule and then one thing lead to another and...yeah. No drawing classes for me. 

That was a bummer. Drawing class has to be hands down my favourite studio class of all time. The only thing that could possibly trump it is painting (and painting is pretty freaking awesome..just saying). 

So this year I was super pumped to be getting back into a drawing class and start doing some fun drawing assignments. And so far it's been cool. But I never expected to be playing with my food to make art. So what we have been doing for the first week or so of class is to try to make a mark with something that you wouldn't normally use to draw with. So after we got the assignment I decided to raid my fridge and forge for things outside.

And this is what I got. 

The samples displayed below are some of my favourite experiments that I did.

Here's my experimentation with blueberries. I really enjoyed it. I liked that not only did I get some nice blues and purples, but I did get a nice ochre colour too from the inside of the blueberries. I really like the different ways that you could use the blueberry to make a mark. It was a lot of fun!

I was trying to play with layers with the blueberries above and then got bored and gave up! Sorry not sorry.

I played with tea and then tried to use paper towel to apply the juices from the blueberries and well as some strawberries that I smushed up. I decided not to experiment with tea because it's one of those things that my teacher considered to be a "cop out" and is over done. So therefore, I just played with it only a little bit.

The next page I just played with whatever I had a the time. Leaves, dirt, strawberries! I even cut/scored the paper a little bit. Then I continued to play with the strawberries. They acted in a similar manner as the strawberries so that was fun.

And then lastly, I played with soy sauce. The soy sauce was fun to play with cool, and I found it looked a lot like coffee or tea when I let it dry. But all I could smell for the rest of the class was soy sauce. Jeez. It really made me want to have sushi or something which I did have by the way. 

So now I have to pick one or two of these to experiment with a little bit before I chose one to use as my final. I think I'm going to play around with the blueberries and the soy sauce more. I'm looking forward to it. 

I'll have some more process work done on Thursday so I'll probably post it on Thursday or sometime later this week. 

Bye~

-Cagsyy