vincent van gogh drawing and printmaking the lives of lines
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Vincent van Gogh
Drawing and PrintmakingThe Lives of Lines
Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888, Van Gogh
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/van_gogh/menu.htmlAbout van Gogh, his drawings, his technique, and his tools
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/van_gogh/slideshow/slide.asp?item=0&ss=playSlideshow of some van Gogh drawings
Holland
Where was van Gogh born?
Seeing works of fellow artists: Impressionists & Neo-
Impressionists
What inspired van Gogh’s style when he was in France?
Linear Perspective
What method do artists use to make objects appear smaller and
closer together when they are farther away?
Three Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques
Transparent Layering
Burnishing (Opaque Layering)
Grisaille
Transparent Layering
“Because colored pencil is transparent, a rich spectrum of
hues as varied as those found in nature can be created simply by layering one color over another.”
(Exploring Colored Pencil, Sandra McFall Angelo)
Ann James Massey
http://www.annjamesmassey.com/
Henri Berenger, 1995.
Black colored pencil
9 1/2” x 7 1/4”
Bill Nelson
http://billnelsonstudios.com/pages/aboutbill.html
Stallone
Colored pencil
Opaque Layering
Burnishing
“When you burnish a drawing, you apply the final layer of color with
such heavy pressure that all colors underneath meld together
and create an opaque wax barrier.” (Exploring Colored Pencil, Sandra
McFall Angelo)
Debora Zeller
Hands of the Potter
Colored Pencil
Burnishing: 4 stages
Create a line drawing
Develop a value drawing with transparent layers to establish light, medium, & dark tones
Layer local colors over value study until drawing looks like a completed transparent layered drawing
Add final layers of colors with gradually increasing pressure
Burnishing tips
Do not apply heavy pressure until all layers of color have been applied, as pressing hard will flatten the tooth of the paper.
Let medium tones spill into both lighter and darker areas.
Do not let light color get in the darks and do not let darks get into light colors.
Brush paper and drawing surface often to keep crumbs from embedding in the paper.
Grisaille
(greez EYE)
A technique in which a
black-&-white underdrawing is followed by a glaze of color.
Victoria Peterson Laird
“El Cazador” Andalusian
pastel and graphite
19" x 16"
Grisaille: 4 steps
Create a contour line drawing of subject.
Complete a black-and-white value study (graphite or black/gray colored pencil), keeping values on the lighter side.
Spray with workable fixative.
Cover with transparent layers of colored pencil.
Grisaille tips
Use this technique for subjects that have subtle tones.Use for drawings of antiques, nature, animals, old photographs.Use this technique for anything with dull colors.For brightly colored drawings that are done with grisaille, make the underdrawing with a gray colored pencil rather than a graphite pencil.