7th Grade

CharcoalvalueTechniques for drawing with charcoal

• Materials

– 2 sheets newsprint

– to do practice sketch - ideas

– charcoal pencil

– white charcoal pencil

– willow charcoal sticks

– erasers - plastic, kneaded, rubber

– ruler

– sandpaper paddle

– small, clean water color brush

– non-greasy baking paper (place under hand while working to protect from smudging)

– charcoal paper (gray)

• Class Periods - 2

• Make sure the students put their name and date on every project!

willow/vine charcoal

charcoal pencil

white charcoal pencil

cover area with willow charcoal

draw fine lines with char. pencil

draw fine lines with willow

erasing techniques

prepare a chisel pointcreate an ellipse

1. charcoal paper is smooth side up

charcoal cannot adhere to glossy or shiny surface

needs a texture or “tooth”

2. rule the sheet into 4 same sized sections

use hb pencil

3. Charcoal techniques

1- cover medium sized areas with willow charcoal

2- draw fine lines with willow

3- draw fine lines with char. pencil

4- erasing techniques

PREPARE CHISEL POINT

sandpaper flat on table

gently rest tip on sandpaper

hold perpendicular (right angle) to surface

rub back and forth - shaving

will wear charcoal down to form the important point

*if charcoal shatters - too much pressure

Procedure

About Charcoal

has been used in various forms by artists for centuriesone of the oldests drawing materials

vocabulary• symmetry - in drawing is a balanced arrangement of lines and shapes, on opposite

sides of an often-imaginary centerline.

• asymmetry - the opposite of symmetry, when one side does not reflect the other side

• Shape - the outward outline of a form. Basic geometric shapes include circles, squares and triangles.

• abstract - not realistic but expressive, imaginative or creative way to show the essence of something

• cubism - subject matter is broken up, studied and reassembled in an abstracted, geometric form

• Shading - the various shades of gray (values) in a drawing that make drawings look three-dimensional.

• Tone - a quality of a color coming from it’s saturation.

• Value - the different shades of gray created by various means, such as when you

draw by varying both the density of the shading lines, and the pressure used in

holding your pencils.