pen, brush and ink - the line and the flow
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Pen and Ink First Day 2016
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
6/20 PENS three drawings: (1) blind contour (observation 10 min) (2) seven kinds of line (photo 30 min) (3) Fold-Up Monster Game (imagination, 60 minutes) HW finish
6/27 Pen Master Study (Strip studies) HW finish
7/4 holiday
7/11 NIB PENS HW finish
7/18 BRUSH “vocabulary” of the brush HW finish
7/25 PEN AND BRUSH HW finish
8/1 COURSE PROJECT "Series" of 5+ drawings (due last class)
8/7 MUSEUM STUDY Sunday at Legion of Honor Museum 930am-1pm
8/8 continue course project
8/16 continue course project
8/22 Final Critique
tonight:
Blind contour – 10 minutes (observation)
Variety of line – 30 minutes (photo)
Foldup Monsters – 60 minutes(imagination)
Variety of Line
Variety of line = "beauty"
'Searching line' - draw and redraw until you find what you want - this is what the masters did.
In this Leonardo drawing, the baby's legs are drawn several times.
Leonardo
Variety of line = "beauty"
fast/slow
thick/thin
light/dark
Leonardo
Variety of line = "beauty"
fast/slow
thick/thin
light/dark
What does line say about character?
Complexity and strength!
Jerry Giefer
Blind contour drawing is drawing without looking at the paper, an exercise to build sensitivity to pressure and speed, creating more variety of line (and beauty).
Variety of Line in Ink
parallel, curving (directional)
short dashes
cross-hatched
loose wandering (jagged)
7 kinds of line
1. Stippling
stippling
stippling
Curving and stippled
2. Scribble and sketchy
Claude Lorraine
3. Cross Hatching
Short feathery strokes, cross-hatching
4. Parallel Lines
Rubens
Parallel Lines
5. Contour
6. Blind Contour
7. Pattern
Abstract textures with the brush
Brush and ink
drawing with the brush
Brush and pen combined
Hirsch
“drawing” with a hair dryer, blowing puddles of ink on the canvas while it lays flat on the table, creating spikey “line” shapes.
colored inks!
Janet Benjamin
Adding opaque paint
on top
Ink over a Light Wash
tonight:
Blind contour – 10 minutes (observation)
Variety of line – 30 minutes (photo)
Foldup Monsters – 60 minutes(imagination)