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Drawing Class Thursday, April 15, 2010



Experimenting with Ink

"Now for something completely different!"

Ink is infinitely versatile
Let your imagination flow with this medium
Different approaches:
Loose like watercolors-
wet on wet, layering opacity
Limitless mark making with tools such as sticks,
feathers, prints of textures
Tight crosshatchings and dots
Linear poems of movement and weight

Dream like landscapes fom Ink playing experiments:

Gao Xingjian
Abstractions from ink manipulation.

Fang Lijun

Examples of his large face ink paintings as well as some of the wilder side of his imagination.

One of his oils but you can imagine this done in ink washes

Tightly rendered:

Barbara Kirby creates these drawings with small dots from her pen.
Highly controlled style but organic and dreamlike subject matter

Traditional:

Joseph Clement Coll 1881 - 1921
Classic American Illustrator
Ink line drawings reproduce well. Midtones are made of crosshatching and layering of marks.
Past Illustrators were the masters of line. Their work is a great example of creating mood with line.

Amazing!

DAVID HOCKNEY!
Oh, this man can DRAW! in whatever medium he likes!


Materials:
Please bring ink if you have some
Ink nibs with holders
Don't worry, I will put together some kits
Look at this blog before class on Wed. for price
Email me asap if you want me to buy you materials. I will bring 5 sets

Bring paper.
Bristol, hot press WC, mylar or even rice paper if you have some.
Paper towels
Water container
Any patterned pieces of texture for stamping patterns with ink.
Photos or objects for realistic renderings if you wish (I will bring some of these)


See you there!
9:30 till noon in the ArtServe gallery


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