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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