Drawing Tuesday - Petrie Museum

The vitrines are crowded with artifacts, mostly pottery, from all the dynasties of Egypt, as far into "now" as Roman times. We were suprised at how many visitors the museum had.

I sat down in front of some convenient jugs and filled a page with their shapes. These are coiled pots and were not always perfectly symmetrical -

Lots of pen lines, no chance of erasing any. Trying for a decent composition on the page spread, but basically I started at top left and worked across each page.

The patterning of the snail shells spoke to me -

Pen again, not terribly accurate ... but it was about the pattern, yes?

They look better with dark accents, and a bit of shadow -

Later I found these tipsy jugs -

 But what was everyone else up to?

Michelle used several page spreads in her handmade coptic stitch book, then did something simple on the first page -

 Coptic stitched books, it must be mentioned, open up perfectly flat.

Janet moved on from single objects, here combining several in a well-chosen scene -

 Jo found the "spirit houses" entrancing -

 Caryl's landscape of ancient pots, carefully observed -

 Sue's fragment of a relief from Thebes, subtly coloured -