Exercise : Using charcoal

In this exercise I am focusing on covering an error in charcoal, again exploring different approaches to applying the charcoal to the paper.


Here I am using the tip of the charcoal, the side of the charcoal  and experimenting with bread and a putty rubber to lift out areas of densely applied charcoal.

Here is a detail of the marks left by the lifting the charcoal with the bread and putty rubber. Looks to me likely some ghostly fish shapes... realization here is that I should not just see the rubber as an instrument for removing marks that have been made in error but also an instrument for drawing.