1. Drawing

2. Drawing Everybody draws. Two qualities associated with drawing:
familiarity and intimacy.
Familiarity refers to the materials used in drawing: pencil, pen, chalk, etc.
Drawing seems intimate because it is associated with the artist’s private note-taking.
“Drawing is considered to be direct expression—
from brain to hand.”

3. Liquid Media: Pen & Ink/ Brush & Ink Wash Digital: Use of the computer
Pigment: powdered coloring material
Binder: substance that holds pigment together
Calligraphy: beautiful writing
Gesture: calligraphic lines that suggest movement
Conceptual: focus on the idea
Installation: art that involves ceiling, wall and floor
Dry Media: Pencil (graphite), metal point, Charcoal, Chalk & Crayon (pastel)
Liquid Media: Pen & Ink/ Brush & Ink Wash
Digital: Use of the computer
Wall Art

4. Gesture: calligraphic lines that suggest movement
Gesture: calligraphic lines that suggest movement. Pablo Picasso’s composition study for Guernica. 1 May pencil on blue paper; 8 ¼” x 10 7/8”

5. Frank O Gehry. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, west elevation. 1991
Frank O Gehry. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, west elevation Ink on paper

6. Edgar Degas. Dancer adjusting her Slippers. 1873
Edgar Degas. Dancer adjusting her Slippers graphite and charcoal heightened with white chalk on now-faded pink paper, 12 ¼ x 9 3/8”

7. Drawings done to understand the world around them, to investigate its form. Leonardo Da Vinci. Star of Bethlehem and Other Plants. C red chalk and pen, 71/2 x 6 3/8”.

8. Drawing Surfaces
Cave drawings in Southern France and Spain were drawn directly on the walls.
Neolithic period used surface of pottery to draw on.
The Greeks drew on pottery. They also drew and wrote on papyrus, a paper material developed in ancient Egypt that was made from pressed plant stems.
Parchment made from treated animal skins was widely used in the Roman Empire.
Ancient Chinese drew on silk and still do.
The Chinese are credited with the invention of paper, traditionally said to be discovered in 105 C.E.
From China, paper was introduced into the Islamic culture during the 8th century and in Europe 600 years later.

9. Materials for Drawing
All drawing materials are based on pigment _powdered coloring material mixed with a substance that enables it to adhere to the drawing surface.
Drawing materials are divided into two categories _dry media and liquid media.
Dry media is abrasive.
Liquid media has particle of pigment suspended in fluid, so it flows onto the surface freely.
Dry Media: Pencil, metal point, charcoal, chalk and crayon, & pastel.
Liquid Media: pen and ink, brush and ink.

10. Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Nicolo Pagnini
Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Nicolo Pagnini graphite on paper, 11 ¼ x 8 3/4

11. Chris Ofili. Prince among Thieves with Flowers. 1999
Chris Ofili. Prince among Thieves with Flowers Pencil on paper, 29 ¾ x 22 ¼”

12. MetalPoint Technique popular during the Renaissance.
The drawing medium is a thin wire of metal , often of pure silver (silverpoint), mounted in a holding device, wooden shaft or a mechanical pencil.
The drawing surface is a specially coated poster paint—usually bone dust and glue.
Metalpoint drawings characteristics are fine, delicate lines of uniform width.

13. Filippino Lippi. Figure Studies: standing Nude and seated man reading
Filippino Lippi. Figure Studies: standing Nude and seated man reading. C Metalpoint heightened with white gouache, on pale pink ground; 91 11/16” x 8 ½ ”

14. Charcoal Charcoal is the opposite of metal point.
Charcoal is burned sticks of wood. Vine Charcoal & Compressed charcoal
Charcoal lines can be thin or thick, faint or dark.
Charcoal comes in a range from very hard to very soft.

15. Yvonne Jacquette, Three Mile Island, Night I, 1982
Yvonne Jacquette, Three Mile Island, Night I, Charcoal on laminated tracing paper, 48 13/16" x 38”.

16. Chalk and Crayon There is a wide range of chalks and crayons.
The main difference between chalk & crayon is the binder—the substance that holds particles of pigment together.
Chalks have nonfat binders & are fragile. The can be blended and overlaid to produce shaded effects. They work well on paper with some tooth.
Crayons have a fatty or greasy binder. Crayon can be anything from wax crayons used by children through lithographic crayon for drawing on stone in printing making.
Conte crayon is the most common and is available in shades of red, brown, and black.

17. Georges Seurat. Café Concert, c. 1887
Georges Seurat. Café Concert, c Conté crayon heightened with white chalk, 12 3/8" x 9 5/16".

18. George Seurat. The Couple, study for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. 1884
George Seurat. The Couple, study for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte conte crayon, 12 ¼ x 9 ¼’

19. Liquid Media Pen and Ink drawings are permanent.
A major variable in ink drawing is the relative thickness or thinness of lines depending on the pen point.
Thick and thin lines are referred to as calligraphic or gestural.
Ink wash is ink diluted with water and applied with a brush.

20. Rembrandt. Cottage among Trees, 1648–50 Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on paper washed with brown; 6 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.

21. Julie Mehretu drawings (new constructions) # graphite/ colour pencil, acrylic, ink on paper drawing, rapidiograph pen

22. Julie Mehretu drawings (new constructions) graphite/ colour pencil, acrylic, ink on paper drawing, rapidiograph pen

23. Henri Matisse, Dahlias, Pomegranates, and Palm, 1947
Henri Matisse, Dahlias, Pomegranates, and Palm, Brush and ink on paper, 30" x 22 1/4”.

24. Recent Directions
Reaching for the wall

25. Paul Noble. Nobspital. 1997-98. Pencil on Paper, 8’2 ½” x 59”

26. Raymond Pettibon, Installation at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, September 8-October 21, 2000 (detail). Ink on paper, ink on wall.

27. CONCEPTUAL DRAWING Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawing #912. 1999
CONCEPTUAL DRAWING Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawing # White crayon and black pencil on gray walls

29. Elise Engler, Everything they let me draw
Elise Engler, Everything they let me draw. Pencil and colored pencil on wall, 9 x 5’

30. Gary Simmons. Boom. 1996. Chalk and slate paint on wall