We invited our good friends, Chris and Marty, over to help drink the bottle of prosecco that I wanted to use for my Barnestone assignment. The bottle was tall and had these gorgeous curves that complemented my medium height Quinta dos Rouges and my short, but equally curvaceous Perrier bottle. The assignment involved six gestural drawings of each bottle, followed by a detailed, measured drawing of an ensemble of the three bottles on a single page. All told, I spent about 17 hours on the measured drawing, not including the time to drink the prosecco.

Juliette says the point of the assignment is to learn how to see relationships that tie the drawing together, to understand how to break down the structure of the object, to develop line quality, and to work the entire picture at once instead of marching around the contour.