A GALLERY OF DIFFERENT DRAWING MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES

GLOSSARY: The word medium (plural is media) refers to the material used for making an artwork. (It can also refer to the liquid ingredient of a paint e.g. water, linseed oil, etc.)

The artist needs a means to express his or her ideas. The artist usually have an idea before a medium is selected. The artist learns through trial and error what a specific medium can do. If the artist wants to portray a landscape, he or she would consider which medium would best portrays the qualities of light, atmosphere and tonal values. In analysing artwork one should consider the relationship between the subject matter and the medium to see if the artist’s intention was successfully conveyd.

This gallery concentrates on drawing media to show a variety of techniques and styles. It also includes watercolour and collage. Most of these mediums are relatively cheap for use in a classroom.

The choice of visual sources was to show a variety of approaches.

The idea is to be inspired by the range of possibilties and explore them in your teaching practise.

There are many inspirational ‘drawing’ boards on Pinterest. Tutorials on specific techniques and mediums are countless on You Tube. One just has to search through all the ‘kitschy’ ones to discover gems.

NOTE: In some cases it was impossible to get all the emperical data about a work.

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Drawing is perhaps the most direct and basic of all the arts. The marks the artist lays down reflect the movement and skillfulness of the arm and hand.

Charcoal

Elizabeth Gunter, Mourning, charcoal on paper, 2013

Ginny Grayson, Stuart, charcoal, 2007.

Oscar Munoz, Narcisos seco, powdered charcoal on paper, 2006.

Robert Longo, Untitled (Nagasaki B), charcoal, 2003.

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Pencil

Gerhard Richter, Untitled, graphite on paper, 1985.

Cath Riley, pencil on paper

T. Allen Lawson, Wyoming Cottonwood, graphite.

Alberto Giacometti, La mère de l'artiste, stampa, pencil on paper, c.1951.

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Patricia Schappler, Friends, graphite Erin Whitman; Gravity, coloured pencils.

Eric Lacombe, but wonderful use of line Armin Mersmann, Earth Currents, graphite.

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Pen drawings

Henri Matisse, Reclining nude, pen, 1935.

Kristine Jansone, Woman, pen and Ink, 2000. Il Lee, ball point.

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Enam Bosokah, ballpoint pen drawing

Rembrant, Young woman sleeping, brush drawing in brown ink, c.1654

Sesshu Toyo, Autumn Landscape, ink wash drawing, 15th century

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Crayons, conté, chalks and oil pastels

Leonardo, Cartoon for the Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist, black and white chalk on tinted paper, c, 1499 - 1500

Edgar Degas, Before the Mirror, 1889.Pastel on paper.Degas was a master in using chalk pastels. He used them as lines of colour to build up his shapes. Many people see this as painting, rather than drawing.

Paul Emsley, Michael, black chalk and pencil drawing.

Patricia Schappler, Fourteen, graphite and pastel.

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Unknown Kevin Stiles, oil pastel

Connie Chadwell, oil pastel David Newman-White, Jerome, oil pastel, 2011.

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Watercolour

Watercolour is a transparent water-soluable painting medium. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper.

Its qualities are the luminous delicacy because light reflects back from the paper throught the colour, making the whole vivid and translucent.

Egon Schielde, The Artist’s wife, watercolour on paper, 1918.

Paul Klee, Southern (Tunisian) Gardens, watercolour, 1919.

William Turner, Moonrise, La Giudecca, Venice, watercolour, 1829.

Cezanne, Still life with apples, bottle and chair back, watercolour, 1902 - 06

Mixed media

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This is when an artist uses different media, materials and techniques in one work.

Don Doe, Thirst, ink, watercolour, pastel on paper, 2011.

Michael Wann, Aftermath, charcoal and wash on canvas, 2011.

Hamidieli, The Body, charcoal and ink washes, 2012,

Lisette Forsyth, Perch, charcoal, ink and collage on paper

Interesting media

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Drawings can be made with everything that makes a mark and on anything that can be marked on. Many contemporary artists have stretched the boundaries of drawing with their choice of media.

Carne Griffiths, draws and paints with calligraphy ink, graphite, tea, brandy and vodka.

Jay Chou, coffee

Quink Ink, Bleach, Acid and Acrylicpaint. Gerhard Marx, drawing with roots and weeds

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Diane Victor, Dustman, Dust on paper, 2010. Willie Cole, Domestic ID, steam iron scorch and pencil on paper, 1992.

Bernie Leahy, stitched drawing Stitched drawing

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Cai Guo-Qiang, Sunshine and Solitude, Installation of gunpowder drawings

Collage and photomontage

In the early twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque made collage into an art form. A collage (from the French coller, meaning to stick or glue, is a composite image made by sticking newspaper cuttings, photographs and other materials on to a flat surface. It is often combined with drawing and painting media. Photomontage is a form of collage where parts of different photos are stuck together to form an image.

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Georges Braque, Glass, carafe and newspaper , 1914. Collage and chalk and charchoal

Benon Lutaaya

Hannah Höch, Dada Dance, 1922. Montage. Diego Max

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Interesting surfaces to work on

William Kentridge, Lie of the Land 2,Drawing, Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary, 2012

Stephanie Ledoux

Ines Seidel, Two days in pieces, mixed media on cardboard packaging.

Shohei Hanazaki,The Woman Who Puts Up Her Knee, newspaper,cardboard and acrylic

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Gregory Euclide, mixed media on crumbled paper and organic material

Ed Fairburn, drawing on vintage maps Unknown

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Monumental drawings/installations

Zaria Forman

Judith Braun, finger drawings.

Juliette Losq, Wunderkammer, pen and ink, 2010

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