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.
What is Intaglio? Simply put, there are two basic types of printmaking: prints made from the ink on top of the carved plate’s surface (like woodcuts). Woodcuts are a type of relief prints. The second type of printmaking is made from incised plates that are inked, then wiped off, leaving the ink in the …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9047″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Eleanora Duse When looking at John Singer Sargent’s “effortless” portraits, I often wonder how long he actually spent on each. He wanted the painting to look fresh, with an economy of brush strokes, so a painting that looks like it was done in one …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7636″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a textile artist, designer, and printmaker. You likely know of her husband Joseph Albers, the colorist. No doubt the two inspired each other. I recently ran into a book of Anni’s sketches, each page a sheet of graph paper with a different pattern idea. Most were …
[image_with_animation image_url=”6331″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] William Hook’s New Urban Landscapes Last winter, Bill Hook asked for some time off from teaching at the League so he could make more paintings. Looks like it was time well spent! This work appears to have gained a boldness. More texture, more dynamism. We have him teaching this …
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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