Still Life/Breadth 4

I'm not totally sure if this is what I'm supposed to be doing, but I'm just going to comment on what I read. I found the idea of guiding drawings and whatnot with either geometric shapes or grids particularly interesting. Indeed, I never pay enough attention to have noticed any of this before, and I doubt any such idea has made it through into my own art work. But the idea struck me as oddly simplistic, and yet very clever, and it came as no surprise that such methods were commonly used and probably created in the time of renaissance. I don't quite get how a viewfinder is supposed to help, but whatever. I'd be willing to try it.
So, anyway, I guess this time the focus is mostly on positioning, or composition, or whatever it's called. Pity. I'd rather it be on, "learn how to use a colored pencil." Colored pencil techniques are as evasive to me as those for watercolor (did that make sense?), and so I am rather worried about this project right now. Colored pencils and I have never really gotten along.
Anyway, end of the tangent. I need to get back to work.