Glass

Kilner Jar
Ink and Watercolour
Moleskine A4 Watercolour Album
297mm x 210mm (11.69" x 8.27")

Sometimes it’s difficult to summon the enthusiasm to draw something else from around the house. When this happens, it's useful to have someone else suggesting interesting or unusual subjects - it's one less thing to procrastinate about. Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor by Claudia Nice provides a useful list of prompts.

Elaine gave me the book as a Christmas gift. The first chapter is about materials and the second explains basic texturing techniques. In the remaining chapters, Claudia describes the techniques she uses to render a variety of surfaces. For each topic, she provides examples that are primarily ink drawings with a little bit of watercolour to tint them and other examples which are primarily watercolour paintings with a little bit of ink to add definition. Chapter 3 is called "The Look of Transparency" and Glass is the first subject.

Jar and Bottle
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
280mm x 190mm (11" x 7.5")

The green jar and pink bottle is predominantly watercolour, the Kilner jar is predominantly an ink drawing and the vinegar bottle uses my current sketching technique – heavily influenced by Liz Steel's SketchingNow courses.

Condiment
Ink and Watercolour
Stillman & Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook
14.0cm x 20.3cm (5.5" x 8.0")

I need to be more patient building up textures and shading in ink. This is something I will work on with the next subject - Eyes.