rebecca coleman visual studies notebook

Tiny house village version two. I used pastel and colored pencil over a monotype print that I made a couple of weeks ago. Additionally, here are some references that I used for the drawing:

Still life of some ceramic cups made by the mother of one of my housemates. I tried to draw it to look like the small cups might contain a small world. "The rounded body of all things in one..."   (Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Horace Gregory translation) CHAOS AND CREATION   Before land was and sea — before air and sky    Arched over all, all Nature was all Chaos,   The rounded body of all things in one,   The living elements at war with lifelessness;    No God, no Titan shone from sky or sea,    No Moon, no Phoebe outgrew slanted horns    And walked the night, nor was Earth poised in air.   No wife of Ocean reached her glittering arms   Into the farthest shores of reef and sand.    Earth, Air, Water heaved and turned in darkness,   No living creatures knew that land, that sea    Where heat fell against cold, cold against heat — ...

Tiny house village monotype made with oil paint on canvas paper.