Time is possibly the strangest concept we know, this strange invisible force that courses through us pulling us into the future. It only makes sense that an object that represents such a fascinating object should be just as fascinating itself. And when you have an object that’s so fascinating representing such a fascinating concept (apologies for the overuse of fascinating) should be represented in a fascinating way.

I began my first sheet of observation drawing with the intention of exploring different ways of representing the pocket watch. The ambiguity of charcoal lent itself well to the mysterious nature of the clock as did the stark blackness of ink. I tried exploring with other mediums as well going through pencil and pen but by the time I moved on to my second observational piece I decided to use no one medium for any piece rather a mix to create different textures and wider variety of tones. My second observational piece I also decided to tackle some of the details that initially scared me.

This helped me as I moved onto my movement piece, the detail I decided to use in the cover of the watch I would not have been able to implement without the observational piece. I did however use ink as opposed to the charcoal I used in my observational piece for two reasons, ink gave a darker more uniform tone that was less prone to smudging, as well as I wanted to use ink which is something so loose to go in close and force myself to use the brush very precisely and delicately which I something I usually didn’t do.

This attention to detail helped me out in the third container piece in drawing the intricacies of the glass, this also took well to the mixed media since there  were so many different textures in relation to one another the reflective properties of the glass proved challenging but an interesting thing to experience.

For my final piece I decided to head in a more conceptual direction and go back to the reason I chose the object in the first place. We all stand on time, we are all dictated by time so it made sense to create a city constructed on the face of the pocket watch. To create such an expansive city filled with different materials mixed media was a good choice. I kept the city’s design abstract in parts slipping of the edge to show how we all kind of slide through time one way or another.