Looking out my window this morning I saw what looked like a figure standing in a window in one of the buildings across the street. As I focused my gaze I realised that it wasn't a figure but a trick of the light against some objects that had been stacked together, their forms casting shadows that resembled that of a person.
When I was observing the 'figure' in the window I noticed it was tinted beige and brown, indicating that it was actually made from stacked cardboard boxes.
I was going to use brown watercolours for the colours of the figure, but as I sat sipping my morning coffee I had another idea. I got some coffee granules from the pantry and put them into a dish. I then used a damp paintbrush to turn the granules into a brown liquid to paint with, providing the perfect shade of brown for my figure.
The next stage was to add the darker tones to suggest the shadows, for this I used black drawing ink applied with a paintbrush.
Drawing ink and coffee on paper
