The drawing exercise here was to set up a still life, prop a window mat in front of it, set my desktop easel and point of view so that it would not move throughout the time I was drawing and to capture it in exactly in the same proportions in the rectangle on the paper as the mat/viewer has. I’m afraid I can’t describe that better without a photograph of the studio setup. which I forgot to take. Just think: capture the reality in front of you exactly on the paper in front of you, including the size. Sketch in pencil, then fill in with gouache. Aside from trying to accurately draw the flocked bunny toy and his glass bowl of candy, the challenges were the furry/fuzzy bunny texture, the glass reflections, and the eye reflections, and of course, the bane of my drawing existence, the elliptical shape of the bowl. When I came back to class for my next session with this drawing, other students had eaten the Skittles and my teacher had to run around finding more to fill up the bowl. They might be M&M’s mixed with Skittles…but my devotion to realism gave up after two classes and I started to eat my own still life too.