This week I learned a new technique called Chiaroscuro drawing. Chiaroscuro means Light-Dark in Italian. It is a type of drawing which evolved during Renaissance. Initially we have to make a medium grade paper using charcoal. Then the illusion of light and shadow is made by rubbing and adding more charcoal appropriately.
This method was very interesting for me because I found this pretty easy and more effective in terms of light and shadow.
It is done on a 18"x24" cold press watercolor paper using square compressed charcoal, round compressed charcoal, pink pearl eraser and kneaded eraser.
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Hi Nithya...Frst thought that these are done with normal pencils...it looks great..and this wrk is quiet intresting.. like to see more and more on ur blog..
ReplyDeleteso not to be a creep, but I just did this exact same chiroscuro drawing at columbia with the exact same shapes. Did you go to columbia and have barlow as a professor?
ReplyDeleteyeah.. I had Barlow as professor but at School of Art Institute Chicago. The most intersting lessons were these chairoscuro drawings..
ReplyDeleteLove this blog!!!!
ReplyDeleteQuancidine Hinson-Gribble
SCAD Student Savannah, GA