2. Sketching Portraits
9th grade
Pennsylvania Academic
Standards for the Arts and
Humanities
1.4
Medium
8.1
9.1 Charcoal
9.2
9.3 History
9.4
9.5
9.6
The Old Masters to Moderns
3.
4. 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
5. Powdered Charcoal
Powdered charcoal is used to:
•create tonal values
•usually over larger surfaces
•easily erases and can be
•darkened by adding layers.
6. Compressed Charcoal
•Powdered with gum binder
•round or square sticks
•charcoal pencils.
7. Vine Charcoal
• * Vine charcoal is willow or linden/Tilia twigs
burnt into:
• soft
• medium
• hard consistencies
19. 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
20. Step-by-step
-Sketch the figure lightly
-Make adjustments to proportions and
perspectives
-Add mid-tones with smooth or textured
marks
maintaining whiteness where desired
-Emphasize shadows by adding darker marks
-Blend
-Refine shadows and light
21. Critique: Discuss Elements
line Principles
shape Emphasis Balance Harmony V
ariety Movement Rhythm Pr
light and dark oportion Unity
mass
volume
texture
perspective
22. Research
Choose 2 figurative artists, one Old Master and one Modern Master, from the
lists below. Write one aesthetic critique essay for each.
Including:
1. time period
2. era/movement
3. elements of art
4. How are the artists similar?
5. How do they differ?
LeonardoDa Vinci Albrecht Dürer Michelangelo
Titian SandroBotticelli Raphael
El Greco Caravaggio Peter Paul Rubens
Nicolas Poussin Diego Velázquez Rembrandt van Rijn
Johannes Vermeer Donatello Jacques David
Francisco Goya Eugene Delacroix Theodore Gericault
Joseph Turner Mary Cassat John Singer Sargent
Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Thomas Eakins
Eduard Manet Jean Courbet Henri de Toulouse L’autrec
James Whistler Frank Benson Theodore Robinson