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