Cyclamen on a check tablecloth

This was a try-out for Assignment 2, and I was still experimenting with different media.

I put a few items on the tablecloth but focused initially on the cyclamen plant. I used some plum-coloured ink for the flowers, marker pen for the stems and then pastel pencils for the rest.

The main reason is that I wanted to reflect the brilliant pink of the flowers, which is hard to achieve with coloured pencils, which tend to be fainter.

Halfway through, I realised that the items I'd arranged had no real relation to each other and were just floating independently on the cloth, so I decided just to finish off the cyclamen, and then re-think what to put into the composition, and how to position each item.