Art 112 Project 4
Location, location, location INK WASH Draw outdoors from a unique location and compose two finished pieces utilizing ink wash.
In class after returning from Spring Break (Ink wash on white paper)
Life drawing outdoors with ink wash.
Assignment
Develop two drawings of an environment or landscape.
One representational and the other utilizing techniques of abstraction of planes and form.
Both DUE for Crit on April 18th (M/W) and 19th (T/R).
Materials
Ink Wash (India ink)
White drawing paper
Watercolor Paper – experiment with hot and cold press (smooth vs. rough)
Experiment with tonal and linear application of the media.
Deal with: Form and composition, additive and subtractive application of ink and wash, linear perspective, aerial perspective,
distorting perspective, gesture, overlapping, scribbling, line weight, texture, mark making, line quality and a variety of light
and dark values.
Vocabulary
Elements:
Space
Value
Shape
Line
Form
Texture
Principles:
Scale
Movement
Unity
Variety
Contrast
Pattern and Rhythm
Focus of crit
Perspective – atmospheric and linear
Interesting use of light - light source and direction
Overlapping of shapes
Unique location, subject and architecture.
Jacques-Louis David, Homer Reciting His Verses to the Greeks, 1794, ink wash, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Seong Moy, Black Shore Dunes, circa 1955-65, ink wash on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Examples:
Research to start: Cezanne, JMW Turner, Goya, Winslow Homer,
Chinese (Seong Moy), Japanese and Korean brush work.
Student work:
studies