D RAWING AND P AINTING Partners in Crime

D RAWING 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

D RAWING M ATERIALS : D RY 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

D RAWING M ATERIALS : D RY Pencil Once used lead and now use graphite Diverse and popular Contemporary and historical

D RAWING M ATERIALS : D RY Charcoal Similar to pencil in history and range, but simply burnt wood

D RAWING M ATERIALS : D RY Chalk and Pastel Like charcoal, but with a pigment and a binder

D RAWING M ATERIALS : D RY Crayon Conte crayon Crayola

D RAWING M ATERIALS : F LUID Pen and Ink Quills Metal nib slipped into a wooden stylus

D RAWING M ATERIALS : F LUID Pen and Wash Brush and Ink Brush and Wash

P AINTING 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

T YPES OF P AINTING 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

T YPES OF P AINTING Encaustic Pigment with wax as a binder Beeswax is the primary wax

T YPES OF P AINTING 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

T YPES OF P AINTING 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

T YPES OF P AINTING Acrylic Paint Pigment and plastic binder that can be thinned with water Many advantages over oil paints

T YPES OF P AINTING Watercolor Fine pigments using water as solvent Gouache is watercolor mixed with opaque white chalk

T YPES OF P AINTING Spray Paint New and not-so-new

T YPES OF P AINTING Mixed media/collage

T RADITIONAL C LASSIFICATIONS OF D RAWINGS 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.

C ONTEMPORARY D RAWING 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… y our thoughts?