Reading 1: The Mechanics of Visualization
Drawing
• Pencil is most commonly used.
• Paper: all verities work better with different mediums.
• You pick your eraser based off of what you’re drawing with.
• Use the appropriate sharpener.
• Drawing tools include pens and ink, brushes and ink, as well as digital drawing.
The Sketch: The free flow of ideas onto paper without self-consciousness.This is not a finished project and will go through many more editions.
The Finished Drawing: A complete drawing that contains both accuracy in observation and authenticity.
The Observed:
• Drawn from life.
• One must know what to include and what to leave out.
The Imagined:
• Requires research and an active imagination.
• Often an assemblage of information the artist has gathered into one piece.
Painting, Printmaking, and Assemblage:
Paints:
• Gouache: lighter water colors, used as a wash when water is added.
• Acrylic: thick textured, similar to oil paint.
• Watercolor: “a darker form of gouache.
Printmaking:
• Wood engravings: carved wood that is then printed.
• Linocut: carved soft linoleum that is then printed.
• Drypoint: an image scratched onto a soft plate then printed.
• Etching: acid eats away exposed metal; the plate is then printed.
• Engraving: lines are cut into a metal plate then printed.
• Lithography: a wax-resist technique where an image is drawn on a stone with wax that, through a long and labor filled process, prints are pulled from the inked stone.
• Screenprinting: a screen is used to lay layers of ink onto paper.
• Monoprinting: the image it drawn on glass/plexi-glass and then printed.
• Digital printing: limited-edition, digital fine-prints.
Assemblage/Collage: Collage of found images / surrealist / dada.
Digital: Mimics the feeling of a analog art medium.
Traditions of Depicting Space
Space: The illusion of a 3-D object in 2-D medium.
The Indian Tradition:
• Painting.
• Explored perspective by using space / over lapping.
• Size would change depending on status of the depicted.
The East Asian Tradition:
• calligraphy, drawing, and painting.
• Line(different thicknesses) / One color.
• Minimalistic.
• Similar over lap like african and india art.
The African Tradition:
• Sculptures and paintings.
• Style that emphasizes religious ideas, practices, and rituals.
• Egyptian perspective, side-on (torso front).
The Western Tradition:
• Was similar to eastern styles until perspective was introduced.
• Focused on scientific understanding that started to challenge religion.
Perspective
Guided Principles:
• Parallel lines appear to converge when views cross.
• Atmospheric perspective.
• Texture and pattern.
One-point Perspective: One vanishing point.
Two-point Perspective: Two vanishing points.
Three-point Perspective: Three vanishing points.
