Vincent van Gogh

Drawing and PrintmakingThe Lives of Lines

Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888, Van Gogh

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/van_gogh/menu.htmlAbout van Gogh, his drawings, his technique, and his tools

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/van_gogh/slideshow/slide.asp?item=0&ss=playSlideshow of some van Gogh drawings

Holland

Where was van Gogh born?

Seeing works of fellow artists: Impressionists & Neo-

Impressionists

What inspired van Gogh’s style when he was in France?

Linear Perspective

What method do artists use to make objects appear smaller and

closer together when they are farther away?

Three Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques

Transparent Layering

Burnishing (Opaque Layering)

Grisaille

Transparent Layering

“Because colored pencil is transparent, a rich spectrum of

hues as varied as those found in nature can be created simply by layering one color over another.”

(Exploring Colored Pencil, Sandra McFall Angelo)

Ann James Massey

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Henri Berenger, 1995.

Black colored pencil

9 1/2” x 7 1/4”

Bill Nelson

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Stallone

Colored pencil

Opaque Layering

Burnishing

“When you burnish a drawing, you apply the final layer of color with

such heavy pressure that all colors underneath meld together

and create an opaque wax barrier.” (Exploring Colored Pencil, Sandra

McFall Angelo)

Debora Zeller

Hands of the Potter

Colored Pencil

Burnishing: 4 stages

Create a line drawing

Develop a value drawing with transparent layers to establish light, medium, & dark tones

Layer local colors over value study until drawing looks like a completed transparent layered drawing

Add final layers of colors with gradually increasing pressure

Burnishing tips

Do not apply heavy pressure until all layers of color have been applied, as pressing hard will flatten the tooth of the paper.

Let medium tones spill into both lighter and darker areas.

Do not let light color get in the darks and do not let darks get into light colors.

Brush paper and drawing surface often to keep crumbs from embedding in the paper.

Grisaille

(greez EYE)

A technique in which a

black-&-white underdrawing is followed by a glaze of color.

Victoria Peterson Laird

“El Cazador” Andalusian

pastel and graphite

19" x 16"

Grisaille: 4 steps

Create a contour line drawing of subject.

Complete a black-and-white value study (graphite or black/gray colored pencil), keeping values on the lighter side.

Spray with workable fixative.

Cover with transparent layers of colored pencil.

Grisaille tips

Use this technique for subjects that have subtle tones.Use for drawings of antiques, nature, animals, old photographs.Use this technique for anything with dull colors.For brightly colored drawings that are done with grisaille, make the underdrawing with a gray colored pencil rather than a graphite pencil.