pen, brush and ink - the line and the flow

Pen and Ink First Day 2016

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

6/20         PENS three drawings: (1) blind contour (observation 10 min) (2) seven kinds of line (photo 30 min) (3) Fold-Up Monster Game (imagination, 60 minutes) HW finish

6/27         Pen Master Study (Strip studies) HW finish

7/4           holiday

7/11         NIB PENS HW finish

7/18         BRUSH “vocabulary” of the brush HW finish

7/25         PEN AND BRUSH HW finish

8/1           COURSE PROJECT "Series" of 5+ drawings (due last class)

8/7           MUSEUM STUDY Sunday at Legion of Honor Museum 930am-1pm

8/8           continue course project

8/16         continue course project

8/22         Final Critique

tonight:

Blind contour – 10 minutes (observation)

Variety of line – 30 minutes (photo)

Foldup Monsters – 60 minutes(imagination)

Variety of Line

Variety of line = "beauty"

'Searching line' - draw and redraw until you find what you want - this is what the masters did.

In this Leonardo drawing, the baby's legs are drawn several times.

Leonardo

Variety of line = "beauty"

fast/slow

thick/thin

light/dark

Leonardo

Variety of line = "beauty"

fast/slow

thick/thin

light/dark

What does line say about character?

Complexity and strength!

Jerry Giefer

Blind contour drawing is drawing without looking at the paper, an exercise to build sensitivity to pressure and speed, creating more variety of line (and beauty).

Variety of Line in Ink

parallel, curving (directional)

short dashes

cross-hatched

loose wandering (jagged)

7 kinds of line

1. Stippling

stippling

stippling

Curving and stippled

2. Scribble and sketchy

Claude Lorraine

3. Cross Hatching

Short feathery strokes, cross-hatching

4. Parallel Lines

Rubens

Parallel Lines

5. Contour

6. Blind Contour

7. Pattern

Abstract textures with the brush

Brush and ink

drawing with the brush

Brush and pen combined

Hirsch

“drawing” with a hair dryer, blowing puddles of ink on the canvas while it lays flat on the table, creating spikey “line” shapes.

colored inks!

Janet Benjamin

Adding opaque paint

on top

Ink over a Light Wash

tonight:

Blind contour – 10 minutes (observation)

Variety of line – 30 minutes (photo)

Foldup Monsters – 60 minutes(imagination)