Friday, 3 July 2009

An exercise in descriptive verbiage.

The base roughly one fifth of the total height of the object, and silver in colour. It has the reflective quality of dull metal and a very slightly rough visible texturing. The width of the base is approximately half again the width of the rest of the object. The edges of the object appear vertical, there is some slight curvature where the base meets the upper portion suggestive of one cylinder on top of another.

The upper four fifths is mostly transparent, though there is a line of green that runs from near the top down to at least the begining of the base, this line is not perfectly straght it curves slightly in all visible directions while remaining uniform in its width. The green line appears to be smoothly textured at first glance, but on closer inspection there are small dark brown lines extending from the surface of the green in a sparse, yet, uniform pattern. Near the upper most termination of the green line the colour is much darker, nearing brown. As the line nears the bottom of the object it becomes much lighter. The green is quite vibrant, it seems even more so in contrast to the dull base section of the whole object. At one point in the transparent area there is a horizontal break where the shape changes from being only very slightly refractive to fairly heavily refractive of the objects behind it. The curved green line appears to break at this point and begin again slightly to the left of its breaking point and slightly thicker where it is below the intersection.

Connected to the upper most extreme of the green line there is an orange downwards pointing near-conical shape similar to an upside-down, imperfect, pointed arch. The orange area has some light visible texturing, like long tiny wrinkles. Similar to the green line, this orange object is darker at the top than at the bottom, but this is not quite as noticable of a difference. It is equally vibrant in nature. near the top portion of the orange -- the widest part of the conical shape -- there appears to be more visible shadows, as though the shape had to be folded in some way to take its current position. The top level of the whole object is not perfectly level or smooth, there is another horizontal line that is far less defined that the one mentioned erlier, and slightly above that there is the terminating edge of the orange area. The orange has several more visible folds and extends in a slightly ragged manner approximately one millimeter above the slightly defined horizontal line. The entire object is approximately eight inches tall in total.

1 comment:

  1. I would suggest beginning your description with the size and relative shape of the object, and then describe the number of divisions and relative size of them, before going on to colours and textures.

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