Drawing and Painting

Some Basic Fundamentals

Introduction to Drawing &
Painting
Drawing and
painting are two
important ways that
artists give visible
form to their ideas
and feelings.
They suggest daily
experiences and
observations.
Introduction, Cont’d.

Critics need to Media (or

know mediums) are
vocabulary of the tools that
media in order
artists use to
to express
create works
feelings of ideas
& judgments. of art.
Dry Media
Dry Media –
Those that are
applied dry and
include pencil,
charcoal,
crayon, chalk,
pastel, etc.
Wet Media
Wet Media –
Those media in
which the coloring
agent is
suspended in a
liquid and include
ink, paints, etc.
EX: Van Gogh
utilized wet
media.
A Definition of Drawing…
Drawing is the process of portraying an
object, scene, or form of decorative or
symbolic meaning through lines,
shapes, values, and textures in one or
more colors. This process involves
moving a pointed instrument (pencil,
etc. across a smooth surface,
connecting lines in order to create
shapes and other objects.
A Few Things About Drawing…
The most fundamental of art – everything
bases from this!
People of all ages draw: small children with
crayons and students doodlings in notebooks
– people make careers out of this!
Prehistoric times – hieroglyphics on walls
serve as art and language.
All drawings have a common purpose – to
give form to an idea and express the artist’s
feelings about it.
Examples…
In the 17th C. the Italian artist –
Guercino – used drawings to capture
strong religious feelings that dominated
the time and place.
“Saint Jerome and the Angel”
Drawing Facts…

Only in recent times

have drawings been
thought of as a
major art form.
Using a Sketchbook
Artists recognize the
value of maintaining
sketchbooks and
portfolios (EX: Jack
in “Titanic”).
These include
practice sketches
and observations of
daily experiences.
Sketchbook Trivia
Leonardo da Vinci had everything down
to water movement and mechanics of
light.
He had 5,000 pages total of sketches in
his notebooks.
Da Vinci had a fascination for
inventions, human figures, and the
inner functioning of the human body.
Possible
Self-Portrait
Designs for a Flying Machine…
Painting
One of the oldest and most important of the
visual arts.
An artist creates a painting by arranging the
art elements on a flat surface in ways that
are sometimes visually appealing, sometimes
shocking or thought-provoking.
Subjects depend on the time and place in
which they live.
Painting, Cont’d.
Did you know that the oldest known
paintings in the world are not of people,
but of animals?
Paintings were found thousands of
years ago in caves throughout the
world.