DRAWING AND PAINTINGPartners in Crime

DRAWING

2 dimensional Often monochromatic Linear Tonal contrasts Can be in color A combination of surface and medium can

and often does dictate the quality of line and tones in a drawing

DRAWING MATERIALS: DRY

Silverpoint Silver-tipped

instrument dragged over a surface that has been coated with a ground bone dust or chalk mixed with gum, water, and pigment

DRAWING MATERIALS: DRY

Pencil Once used lead and

now use graphite Diverse and popular Contemporary and

historical

DRAWING MATERIALS: DRY

Charcoal Similar to pencil in

history and range, but simply burnt wood

DRAWING MATERIALS: DRY

Chalk and Pastel Like charcoal, but

with a pigment and a binder

DRAWING MATERIALS: DRY

Crayon Conte crayon Crayola

DRAWING MATERIALS: FLUID

Pen and Ink Quills Metal nib slipped

into a wooden stylus

DRAWING MATERIALS: FLUID

Pen and Wash Brush and Ink Brush and Wash

PAINTING

Paint Powdered pigment

mixed with a binding agent or a medium Binding agents: lime

plaster, wax, egg, linseed oil, acrylic plastic, water, and gum arabic

Thinning agents: water and turenpentine

TYPES OF PAINTING

Fresco Painting on plaster Often a mural on

walls, but limited to While wall dries the

artist paints and the image becomes permanent

Issues include timing

TYPES OF PAINTING

Encaustic Pigment with wax as

a binder Beeswax is the

primary wax

TYPES OF PAINTING

Tempera Pigments mixed with

egg yolk and thinned with water Not like this anymore Now pigment is mixed

with gums, saps, glues, etc…

Fell out of favor once oil paints came to be widespread

TYPES OF PAINTING

Oil Paint Took over as major

painting technique due to ability to glaze Thin layers of paint

placed one on top of another to create subtle tones and illusions of depth

TYPES OF PAINTING

Acrylic Paint Pigment and plastic

binder that can be thinned with water

Many advantages over oil paints

TYPES OF PAINTING

Watercolor Fine pigments using

water as solvent Gouache is

watercolor mixed with opaque white chalk

TYPES OF PAINTING

Spray Paint New and not-so-new

TYPES OF PAINTING

Mixed media/collage

TRADITIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF DRAWINGS

Those that investigate, study, and question the real, visible, tangible world.

Those that record objects and events. Those that communicate ideas. Those that are transcriptions from memory –

a way of collecting and keeping impressions and ideas, a way of making visible the world of our imagination.

CONTEMPORARY DRAWING

Has expanded previous classifications Now drawings are called to “works on paper”

Printmaking, photography, illustration, posters, etc.

This expanded definition does not include mark making, which can be done on any surface

Drawing is a preeminent medium Economical Flexible Open to experimentation Technologies stretch the boundaries

Some will say a painting is finished and a drawing is never finished… your thoughts?

CONTEMPORARY DRAWING