Ch 6 Drawing

Sketches and drawings _______.

are preliminary plans for future drawings, paintings or sculptures..., and functions working ideas that lead to a finished work art

_______ is the substance in a medium that causes particles of pigments to adhere to one another and to the support.

binder

______ has for centuries been a favorite tool of Asian artist. It is used there for every type of calligraphy, ranging from works of art to everyday writing. The soft tipis an ideal tool for producing the calligraphic line, allowing for the control of the width of the line by the amount of pressure applied to the tool.

brush and ink

Student drawing of a sculpture by Erte. ______ is more versatile than brush and ink in that it can create an image through tonal contrasts without the use of line. The ink is diluted with water in varying degrees to produce a wide range of tones.

brush and wash

Because this 20th-century artist dated most of his drawings over the course of his lifetime, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at work.

Picasso

Self-portrait by Leonardo The effect of _______ when drawn on paper is very similar to charcoal and pastels. Drawings using this media exist from prehistoric times. It is a soft limestone and it is made into a powder and mixed with a binder such as a gum arabic, and a pigment (in the case of colored versions:, which is then compressed into a stick form.

chalk

Three Mile Island, Night / by Yvonne Jacquette Three Mile Island, Night / by Yvonne Jacquette was created using what is probably the oldest drawing medium. Our ancestors used it when they took sticks from their fires to draw on cave walls. Today the best quality ____ is made from special vine wood that is heated in a kiln until only the carbon remains.

charcoal

The ______ are credited with the invention of paper

chinese

"Gillette" by Georges Braque First used by Picasso and Braque __________ has come to mean an assemblage of two-dimensional objects to create an image: works of art in which materials such as paper, cloth, and wood are pasted to a two-dimensional surface, such as a wooden panel or canvas.

collage

Cafe-concert by Georges Seurat _______ is a fine textured grease-free stick made of powered graphite and clay to which red ocher, soot, or gladstone has been added to give it a red, black, or brown color. It is a versatile drawing medium because it can be applied to create gently shaped areas or the crayon can be sharpened to a point to create a hard, crisp line or shapes.

conte crayon

Why is there variety in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels?

different binders are used

_____ are abrasive and scratch the surface of the support, leaving particles of the material being used where they come into contact with the support. They include the mediums of silverpoint, pencil, charcoal, chalk, crayons and pastel.

dry media

The primary _____ used in drawing is ink, and the instruments used to carry the medium are pen and brush.

liquid media

Standing Nude and Seated Man Reading, by Filipino Lippi This drawing uses the drawing media of _________ in which the support is coated with a ground. Small flacks of metal adhere to the surface and will oxidize to darken the line with time. Delicate, uniform lines characterize this drawing medium.

metal point

The Singer in Green by Edgar Degas softer that chalk, they are a chalky stick made of powdered pigment plus filer and bound with a small amount of gum or resin. ____ come in a full range of brilliant colors offering almost a painters palette to the more spontaneous medium of drawings. Because they are fine-textured, most artist smudge and blend them on the paper anti lends itself especially well to the kind of blending of hues that creates gradated tones.

pastels

Student work; a detail of a print by artist Albrecht Durer. This work used ______ , which is essentially a line medium and gives a smooth, uninterrupted line. Hatching and cross-hatching are used to convey tone and shade. The line is clean, precise and of uniform width because a fine, rigid nib was used. There is little possibility for correction once the lines have been inscribed.

pen and ink

This drawing uses a medium that came into use during the 1500's and eventually replaced metalpoint. Drawing with the point creates a thin, light line with a straight edge the is suitable for meticulous details. Areas of tone can be created in several ways, with a build up of parallel lines (hatching), smudging, or drawing with the side of the graphite tip. The _______________ is inexpensive, easily obtained, and mistakes are easily corrected by erasure.

pencil

_____ is the coloring material of a medium. It is made from various organic or chemical substances. When mixed with a binder such as water, oil, gum rabid, or other substances, it creates a drawing or painting medium.

pigment

Inrush by Mia Pearlman. an example of paper used as a medium is this ______ by Mia Pearlman. She begins by making line drawings in brush and ink on large rolls of paper. Then she cuts out selected areas to make versions of the drawings in positive and negative shapes and assembles them to create delicate yet turbulent sculptural forms.

sculpture installation

Cottage among Trees by Rembrandt van Rijn Pen, brush, and ______ are often combined to create a tonal emphasis the pen alone cannot always accomplish. This media is ink diluted with water and applied with a brush, to provide greater solidity to the form. The work pictured in the figure above uses it.

wash