Drawing and painting are important ways for artists to express ideas and feelings visually. There are dry media like pencil and charcoal that are applied without liquid, and wet media like paint that use a liquid to suspend the coloring agent. Drawing involves using lines and shapes to portray objects, while painting arranges art elements on a flat surface. Sketchbooks allow artists to practice techniques and record observations over time.
Drawing and painting are important ways for artists to express ideas and feelings visually. There are dry media like pencil and charcoal that are applied without liquid, and wet media like paint that use a liquid to suspend the coloring agent. Drawing involves using lines and shapes to portray objects, while painting arranges art elements on a flat surface. Sketchbooks allow artists to practice techniques and record observations over time.
Drawing and painting are important ways for artists to express ideas and feelings visually. There are dry media like pencil and charcoal that are applied without liquid, and wet media like paint that use a liquid to suspend the coloring agent. Drawing involves using lines and shapes to portray objects, while painting arranges art elements on a flat surface. Sketchbooks allow artists to practice techniques and record observations over time.
Drawing and painting are important ways for artists to express ideas and feelings visually. There are dry media like pencil and charcoal that are applied without liquid, and wet media like paint that use a liquid to suspend the coloring agent. Drawing involves using lines and shapes to portray objects, while painting arranges art elements on a flat surface. Sketchbooks allow artists to practice techniques and record observations over time.
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Drawing and Painting
Some Basic Fundamentals
Introduction to Drawing & Painting Drawing and painting are two important ways that artists give visible form to their ideas and feelings. They suggest daily experiences and observations. Introduction, Cont’d.
Critics need to Media (or
know mediums) are vocabulary of the tools that media in order artists use to to express create works feelings of ideas & judgments. of art. Dry Media Dry Media – Those that are applied dry and include pencil, charcoal, crayon, chalk, pastel, etc. Wet Media Wet Media – Those media in which the coloring agent is suspended in a liquid and include ink, paints, etc. EX: Van Gogh utilized wet media. A Definition of Drawing… Drawing is the process of portraying an object, scene, or form of decorative or symbolic meaning through lines, shapes, values, and textures in one or more colors. This process involves moving a pointed instrument (pencil, etc. across a smooth surface, connecting lines in order to create shapes and other objects. A Few Things About Drawing… The most fundamental of art – everything bases from this! People of all ages draw: small children with crayons and students doodlings in notebooks – people make careers out of this! Prehistoric times – hieroglyphics on walls serve as art and language. All drawings have a common purpose – to give form to an idea and express the artist’s feelings about it. Examples… In the 17th C. the Italian artist – Guercino – used drawings to capture strong religious feelings that dominated the time and place. “Saint Jerome and the Angel” Drawing Facts…
Only in recent times
have drawings been thought of as a major art form. Using a Sketchbook Artists recognize the value of maintaining sketchbooks and portfolios (EX: Jack in “Titanic”). These include practice sketches and observations of daily experiences. Sketchbook Trivia Leonardo da Vinci had everything down to water movement and mechanics of light. He had 5,000 pages total of sketches in his notebooks. Da Vinci had a fascination for inventions, human figures, and the inner functioning of the human body. Possible Self-Portrait Designs for a Flying Machine… Painting One of the oldest and most important of the visual arts. An artist creates a painting by arranging the art elements on a flat surface in ways that are sometimes visually appealing, sometimes shocking or thought-provoking. Subjects depend on the time and place in which they live. Painting, Cont’d. Did you know that the oldest known paintings in the world are not of people, but of animals? Paintings were found thousands of years ago in caves throughout the world.