Three Tonality India Ink Rendering

Project Goal: Create a rendering of translucent bottles while utilizing the Three Tonality System. 

Directions: Working form a still life or photographic reference, create a pen and ink rendering that demonstrates pure whites, midtones and pure blacks to promote contrast and the illusion of space on a flat surface. 

1. Stretch a sheet of watercolor paper.
2. Using a pencil, create a light line drawing of bottles.
3. Using Brush and India Ink, carefully match up the tones as displayed in still life or photographic reference. Carefully render image.
4. Preserve white spaces on the canvas to maintain highlights. 

Rubrics: 

1. Craft: Clean, consistent and controlled applications of ink.
2. Tonality: Evidence of three or more tones working together to achieve contrast.
3. Highlights: Evidence of highlights (preservation of white spaces on paper)
4. Proportion: Bottle shapes are proportionate to one another. Accurate use of contour lines.