Megumi Nishimatsu

I use nail polish to draw, because I want to show some different texture that can make comparison with pens. It goes better than I imagine, it show some metallic texture on paper. Some of them even look transparent.

Starting on the first task, talking colour, I basically just draw what I took in the picture on paper. But when it goes to talking pattern, I start to think how to draw them in to a pattern. Some of them doesn’t goes very well, such as the one with garden eel, I was thinking to draw them in to pattern, but it looks more like a picture. 

When I draw during talking colour, I only draw on white paper. Then I found out if I use colour paper to do the drawing, there will be a very big comparison, and the colour will be more vivid. So I use many black paper for talking pattern. But look back to my work, I know that I didn’t use different mix media on one drawing. I use to using one material on one drawing which makes the image look very plan.

In summary, I really like both task. Cause I’m not very confident at my drawing skill, but go through drawing I get some confident that I feels my drawing is not that bad.  By observe things and do drawing is a very interesting process. During the process I also found out what I’m lack at and what need to be improved. 

This original picture I took from the nature history museum. It is a bottle of parrots specimen. It gives me a feeling that these parrots are still living in the bottle.

These two pictures I took in an aquarium, I use colour pencil and water colour to draw because I want to show they are floating in water and show the movement.

This is a pattern from a kimono. I’m really obsessed with Japanese traditional  elements.

I took this picture when our group is visiting around London. We went to brick lane, and I took this picture from a vintage jewellery shop.