Increasing Values - Creating Stronger Drawings
Vandra Pentecost
$405
July 31 - August 28
Th
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Online
All Levels
Instruction Medium: Graphite or charcoal
Do you like drawings with strong contrast using rich blacks?
Do you like drawings with strong contrast using rich blacks?
Techniques on gradation of darker values, layering, burnishing, working with edges, texture, and line quality using either charcoal pencils or graphite pencils will add impact to your drawings. Discussion of different graphite pencil brands, paper surfaces. Subjects will include realism, abstraction, landscape, still life, and figurative. Examples from Masters to contemporary artists will be reviewed. Photo references provided each week.
Required Supplies
- Sketchbook
- Erasers – white plastic, kneaded,
- Charcoal pencils H M S
- Blending stumps
- Pencils: Any - Mars Stadtler Lumograph black, Tombow, Faber Castel Pitt Matte black *The instructor will use MSL Black and FCPM Black*
Optional:
- Factus and Tombow pencil erasers
- Stonehenge, Charcoal or textured paper
Vandra Pentecost
Vandra Pentecost is a conceptual figurative painter inspired by comparative religion, world culture and the subtleties and sensuality of the human spirit. In 2014 she...
