Introduction to 2-D Media: Painting and Drawing

Reading:Artforms, 78-103

Terms/Concepts:Drawing, Drawing as Record, Drawing as Preparatory Tool, Study, Cartoon, Drawing as Art Form, Hatching, Crosshatching, Pointillism, Contour Drawing, Tooth, Weight, Pencil, Charcoal, Conte Crayon, Pastel, Fixative, Chiaroscuro,

Washes, Gouache, Paint, Pigment, Binder, Vehicle, Support, Primer, Ground, Watercolor, Tempera, Gesso, Encaustic, Glaze, Impasto, Acrylic, Buon Fresco vs. Fresco Secco,

What is drawing?

1: the art or technique of representing an object or outlining a figure, plan, or sketch by means of lines

draw·ing noun \ˈdrȯ(-)iŋ\

2: an artwork created from lines or areas of tone created with a dry medium on a piece of paper. For example, graphite pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, or silverpoint.

3: a two-dimensional artwork created from lines or tone that is dominated by a dry medium but can include wet mediums such as ink, and washes of paint.

What is drawing?

1: the art or technique of representing an object or outlining a figure, plan, or sketch by means of lines

draw·ing noun \ˈdrȯ(-)iŋ\

2: an artwork created from lines or areas of tone created with a dry medium on a piece of paper. For example, graphite pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, or silverpoint.

3: a two-dimensional artwork created from lines or tone that is dominated by a dry medium but can include wet mediums such as ink, and washes of paint.

Functions of Drawing

1. Drawing as a Record2. Drawing as a Preparatory Tool3. Drawing as an Art Form

Drawing as a Record

Elizabeth Cook. Julian Assange appearance at Westminster Magistrate Court. December 7, 2010.

Drawing as Record

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.Le Corbusier

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.Jim Dine

Drawing as a Record

Peter Millet. Fort Lewis Court Martial Hearings. November 2010.

Drawing as a Record

J. Webber del, W. A night dance by woman, in Hapaee. Sharp sculp. Plate 17 from Cook, James, 1728-1779.

Drawing as a Record

J. Webber del, J. Various articles at Nootka Sound. Record sculp. Plate 40 from Cook, James, 1728-1779.

Unknown. Six Portraits, a detail from Back Ship and Crew. ca. 1854. color on paper.

Drawing as a Record

unknownThe North American Adjutant General (Adams)Kita amerika jinbutsu peruri zōca. 1854color on paper36.8x25.4cm

Drawing as Record

Leonardo da Vinci. Anatomical Drawings. Nerves and Muscles from Gray’s Anatomy

Drawing as Record

Drawing as Preparatory Tool

Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884. Oil on Canvas

Drawing as Preparatory Tool

Georges Seurat, A Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1874-1884. Conte Crayon.

Drawing as Preparatory Tool

Georges Seurat, A Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1874-1884. Conte Crayon.

Drawing as Preparatory Tool

Georges Seurat, A Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1874-1884. Conte Crayon.

Drawing as Preparatory Tool

Georges Seurat, A Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1874-1884. Conte Crayon.

Drawing as Preparatory Tool

Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884. Oil on Canvas

Drawing as Art FormI use the devices of technical drawing. These devices help shine the sharpest light on the things I depict. I am against hierarchies and perspective. I arrange the objects of my drawings on a spatial plane using cavalier projection. The origins of this projection lay in military cartography - fore, mid and background are got rid of and everything depicted is equally close and far. The viewer becomes the architect and the drawing, an architectural plan. He or she is no longer earthbound but hovers like an angel over the described scene, taking in the entire design.

I was raised on the north-east coast of England, and this has conditioned my aesthetic. I think like the flat, grey skies of wintery Whitley Bay - tonally. I use very hard pencils, very rarely softer than 4H. Sometimes the pencils are so hard it seems they would rather scratch a hole in the paper than give up their pale graphite.Paul Noble

Drawing as Art Form

Drawing is deception. MC Escher

Drawing as Art Form

Makiko Kudo, Sketch, 2000s

Drawing Materials

Dry• Pencil• Charcoal• Chalk• Pastel• Conte Crayon

Wet• Pen• Marker• Ink• Gouache

Drawing Pencils

Charcoal

Oil Pastel

Chalk Pastel

Conte Crayon

Drawing Pens

Gouache and Ink Washes

Qualities of Line

Qualities of Line

Mark Making: Creating Value

Pointillism Hatching Cross-Hatching Blending

Mark Making: Values

Painting Definitions

painting [ˈpeɪntɪŋ] n1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) the art or process of applying paints to a surface such as canvas, to make a picture or other artistic composition2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a composition or picture made in this way3. the act of applying paint to a surface with a brush

Surfaces

First Application Tools

Brushes

Brushes

Paint Knives

Paint

Pigment + Binder = Paint

Watercolor

Watercolor

Oil

Acrylic

Tempera

Encaustic

Encaustic

Fresco

Murals