Never underestimate the beauty potential of a simple study on paper. These works are mostly vine charcoal on toned paper, some white charcoal (or white pastel), and pencil. The drawing above is watercolor. For most of these, regardless of color, the toned paper is standing in for medium value, so the artist only has to do lights and darks. Simple and elegant.
Study for young spartans
Drapery study for Semiramis Building Babylon
Study of a draped figure
Drapery Study for Semiramis
study for dante and virgil 1857
The Paint like Degas 2 day workshop starts this Saturday. Artists are welcome to make studies in charcoal, pastel, monotype, or paint. We’ll have a model on the first day, and we’ll work from photographs on the second, like Degas did. You could do studies of drapery. I’ll help.
Sign up for Draw, Sketch, Print, Paint like Degas.
Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7724″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Piet Mondrian, 1912 Yesterday’s challenge was to draw a tree from observation. That was part 1 of 3. Today is part 2 of 3. Today we’ll do the same, only different. Look again at the tree. If you did a drawing, study your drawing. Look at the branches, how …
Preparing for my Unconventional Portraits class this Friday night, I asked Google to show me famous portrait painters. I saw this: In a line of 27 portrait painters, 24 are white men. The exceptions are two black people, and two women. One person in the line is both black, and a woman: Amy Sherald. That …
Degas’ Studies of Drapery
Never underestimate the beauty potential of a simple study on paper. These works are mostly vine charcoal on toned paper, some white charcoal (or white pastel), and pencil. The drawing above is watercolor. For most of these, regardless of color, the toned paper is standing in for medium value, so the artist only has to do lights and darks. Simple and elegant.
The Paint like Degas 2 day workshop starts this Saturday. Artists are welcome to make studies in charcoal, pastel, monotype, or paint. We’ll have a model on the first day, and we’ll work from photographs on the second, like Degas did. You could do studies of drapery. I’ll help.
Sign up for Draw, Sketch, Print, Paint like Degas.
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