Illuminated
Bottle
“Even as the artist of this drawing, I
do not know what the bottle is or what
the bottle contains.”
- Gerardo Martinez
This artwork was made in Adobe Illustrator. It is a
drawing of a bottle using monochromatic colors of
green. By making this a monochromatic artwork, I
used the different levels of lights and darks of the color
green. The bottle is being illuminated by a light source
that shines on it from the left side of the bottle. The
light causes to cast a shadow of the bottle from behind
and form on the ground and the wall in the area. I used
the lighter shades of green to form the lights of the
bottle. Then, I used the darker shades of green to form
the darks of the bottle. With both lights and darks, it
forms a 3rd dimensional figure of a bottle.
The idea of this artwork is to visually show the details
of the monochromatic color of green through the lights
and shadows created by a light source in the artwork.
Also, I wanted to show the difference of using lighter
and darker shades of green when there is a light source
in the artwork.
I want the audience to detemine where the light source
would be located from light shining on the bottle and
the location of the bottle’s shadow formed in the artwork. Also, I want the audience to see how used the
color green to create the values of the bottle when it is
illuminated by a light.
Green bottle in an unknown green area with a
light source shining on the bottle against