charcoal drawing

CharcoalLesson 3

For Unit Plan

By Marie Max-Fritz

Sketching Portraits9th grade

MediumCharcoal

HistoryThe Old Masters to Moderns

Pennsylvania Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities1.48.19.19.29.39.49.59.6

Lesson Review

• Overview of medium, process, research essay• History of artists• 2 Studio sessions• Extension: free time for research• Teacher and student critique• Research essays and final drawing due

Powdered Charcoal

Powdered charcoal is used to:

•create tonal values

•usually over larger surfaces

•easily erases and can be

•darkened by adding layers.

Compressed Charcoal

•Powdered with gum binder •round or square sticks •charcoal pencils.

Vine Charcoal

• * Vine charcoal is willow or linden/Tilia twigs burnt into:

• soft • medium • hard consistencies

Pure Charcoal

•Very soft

•Very dark tones

•Very messy!

Accessories

• Kneaded eraser• Tortillons (blending stump)• Sandpaper block

Kneaded Erasers

Tortillons

Sandpaper block

Fixatives

Fine Art Fixative Gloss/non-workable FixativeWorkable Fixative

The Human Figure

Portraits and sketches by the Masters

Old MastersEarly RenaissanceHigh Renaissance

Baroque

Early Renaissance15th Century (1400-1500 A.D.)

Raphael, 1507

High Renaissance

16th Century (1500-1600 A.D.)

Michelangelo, 1528

Baroque17th to 18th Centuries (1600 – 1700’s

A.D.)

Peter Paul Rubens, 1610

ModernsRomanticists and Impressionists

Goya, 1795

Romantic18th and 19th Centuries

Delacroix, 1821

Impressionist19th Century

Gaugin, circa 1890

Getting Started

• Clear drawing surface• Layout paper – horizontal for landscape viewpoint– or vertical for portrait viewpoint

• Have drawing supplies ready– Charcoal, kneaded eraser, tortillons (blend stick)– Paper towels may be used for blending large areas

Step-by-step

-Sketch the figure lightly -Make adjustments to proportions and

perspectives -Add mid-tones with smooth or textured

marksmaintaining whiteness where desired

-Emphasize shadows by adding darker marks -Blend -Refine shadows and light

Critique: Discuss Elementsline shape light and dark mass volume texture perspective

Principles

EmphasisBalanceHarmonyVarietyMovementRhythmProportionUnity

ResearchChoose 2 figurative artists, one Old Master and one Modern Master, from the lists below. Write one aesthetic critique essay for each. Including:

1. time period2. era/movement 3. elements of art 4. How are the artists similar? 5. How do they differ?

Leonardo Da Vinci Albrecht Dürer Michelangelo

Titian Sandro Botticelli Raphael

El Greco Caravaggio Peter Paul Rubens

Nicolas Poussin Diego VelázquezRembrandt van Rijn

Johannes Vermeer Donatello Jacques David

Francisco Goya Eugene Delacroix Theodore GericaultJoseph Turner Mary Cassat John Singer SargentAuguste Renoir Edgar Degas Thomas EakinsEduard Manet Jean Courbet Henri de Toulouse L’autrecJames Whistler Frank Benson Theodore Robinson