Online class | Drawing with the Masters, Part III: traditional methods and techniques
The course “Drawing with the Masters” has quickly become a Classic, pun intended. In this 3rd course of the series, we will keep exploring and learning drawing techniques, Art History and hang out together, copying works by a variety of Masters.
The historical techniques we will practice in this course are at the base of almost all the other drawing techniques that will then be more easily accessible and understood: graphite, charcoal and chalk on toned paper, silverpoint, pen and ink, ink washes, trois crayon technique, reduction technique.
In this online course, divided in 5, three hour online Zoom lessons, we will copy works of Masters from different historical times: Michelangelo, Giacometti, Pontormo, Seurat Raphael, Cadmus, Carracci and other great masters of the past, to understand their style and drawing technique and develop a deeper insight and technical mastery in the art of figure drawing.
The historical techniques we will practice in this course are at the base of almost all the other drawing techniques that will then be more easily accessible and understood: graphite, charcoal and chalk on toned paper, silverpoint, pen and ink, ink washes, trois crayon technique, reduction technique.
In this online course, divided in 5, three hour online Zoom lessons, we will copy works of Masters from different historical times: Michelangelo, Giacometti, Pontormo, Seurat Raphael, Cadmus, Carracci and other great masters of the past, to understand their style and drawing technique and develop a deeper insight and technical mastery in the art of figure drawing.
Materials
Drawing paper: a pad of Strathmore Drawing, series 400, 12” by 18” or 11” by 14” or Strathmore Bristol vellum surface series 300, 11” by 14”; Strathmore charcoal paper toned, 12” by 18”.
You can also use or experiment with any other brand and type of paper you like or have: Canson, Fabriano, etc. or buy paper by the sheet.
Compressed Charcoal in sticks and pencils. General's is a good and cheap brand.
White chalk in pencils or sticks, General's again makes a very good and cheap chalk pencil.
Vine charcoal in square sticks, preferably Nitram in soft and medium gradation (B and HB).
Graphite pencils in HB-2B-4B gradations will suffice.
Pen and Ink (black or walnut color) and one watercolor brush n°6 or 8
Blending stump, erasers (mars plastic, kneaded eraser, Chamois, General’s Factis mechanical eraser or Tombows Mono Zero mechanical eraser.
Red, black and white Conte crayon pastel or colored pencils. The red should be an earth red such as Venetian red or Indian red.
And finally, sharpening tools and sand paper.
