From the Drawing Forum Website by Jim Flahaven 

Extreme Close-Up: Select an interesting three-dimensional object.  Choose something that you can hold in your hand, something that has interesting nooks and crannies and some rich surface texture.  Take a long, hard look at your object.  Observe it under different lighting conditions. Enlarge the object so that it totally fills the page.  If your image spills off all four sides of the page, that is perfectly ok.  

Work from life, not a photograph. Some objects that might work well are: children’s toys, a cut open fruit, a pinecone, a shell, an antique hand tool, a flower, a jar of olives, bicycle gears, pieces of plumbing, an old fashioned egg beater, a fossil, a fish, an old sneaker, a saxophone, a baseball glove, a slice of pizza.  

Bland, smooth industrial objects do not work well for this assignment.  Avoid things like cell phones, stereo equipment, flat screen televisions, etc. 
 
Think about your positioning on the page.  Will the object sit there aligned nicely, or will it be presented on the diagonal?  Use a range of marks and values to show texture.  

Source artists: Janet Fish, Georgia O’Keefe, Jim Dine tool drawings

Please look at examples of work by these artists by Thursday; be prepared to describe and discuss subject matter chosen by each artist. Subject matter is what the artist chooses to draw (or paint, sculpt, photograph ... etc.).