Hoofdstuk 2 | PILES
A still life does not have to be a careful composition, it can also be messy. In this pile of toilet roll tubes, only one tube in the middle foreground is completely visible (that’s where I started). Of all the other tubes, you only see part because of the overlaps. This gives the still life a three-dimensional look.
Exercise: Draw one or more piles of toilet rolls/boxes/eggs/tubes/stones or other easy-to-draw objects. Let the pile(s) fill your entire paper. Color the objects if you want.
Here are four drawings by primary school pupils (approx. 10 years old).
Sometimes pupils give an original and totally surprising twist to an assignment as the last imaginative example shows.
