In front of me, I had three mystery objects and a variety of media (acrylic paint, pens, pencil, conte). After blindly selecting an object, I selected media that I thought would best convey how it felt.
The first object is a rock with a rough, irregular shape and texture, which has been cut transversely to reveal holes on the inside of the rock. Conte seemed to offer a lot of flexibility in ways of conveying the object. After drawing the object blindly and while seeing it, annotations were added with observations to compare the two approaches.
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The second object is a cold piece of La Vache Qui Ri (a triangular wedge-shaped piece of cream cheese wrapped in tinfoil packaging). It was finger-painted with acrylic paint. I wanted to be able to touch the paper directly with my hand rather than using a tool for mark-making. Finger-painting limited the kinds of lines I could make, but seemed to work for something that was cold and smooth.
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