Chapter 9 continued: Drawing materials
Pastel is the only
dry drawing material
that offers the use of
color
Pastel is difficult to
control and prone to
overblending or
“muddying”
Rosalba Carriera
Self Portrait 1730’s
Pastel on paper
Pastel is often
selected to create
a work that is
meant to feel like
a painting,
especially as a
painted portrait
Edgar Degas
Le Petit Dejeuner
Apres Le Bain 1894
Pastel on paper
Title: After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself
Source/Museum: Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
Artist: Edgar Degas
Medium: Pastel on paper
Date: c. 1889-1890
Size: 26 5/8 x 22 ¾ in.
Title: Young Mother, Daughter, Son
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1913
Source/Museum: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of
Rochester. Marion Stratten Gould Fund.
Medium: Pastel on paper
Size: 43 ¼ x 33 ¼ in.
Wet Drawing Materials
Black or colored ink applied with any
of the following:
•pen, quill, bamboo stick or brush
Ink allows for the use of crisp and
well defined lines as well as a wide
range of tones
Techniques specific to ink
Hatching and cross hatching- lines
are placed in a parallel series to
darken the value/tone of an area
Wash- applying a thin layer of ink to
achieve an area of light or dark
without the use of line
An artist
can model
their subject
in light and
dark with
the use of
the
technique of
hatching
and crosshatching
Charles White Preacher 1952 ink on
cardboard
Hatching and
crosshatching can
help create visual
texture and implied
light
Vincent van Gogh
The Fountain in
the Hospital
Garden 1889
Pen and ink
Title: The Holy Family with a Kneeling Monastic Saint
Artist: Elisabetta Sirani
Date: c. 1660
Source/Museum: Private collection. Photo courtesy of
Christie's, London.
Medium: Pen and brown ink, black chalk, on paper
Size: 10 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.
Title: The Adoration of the Magi
Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Date: c. 1740s
Source/Museum: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at
Stanford University. Mortimer C. Leventritt Fund.1950.392.
Medium: Pen and brown wash over graphite sketch
Size: 11 3/5 x 8 1/5 in.
Title: Corps de Dame
Artist: Jean Dubuffet
Date: June-December, 1950
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Jean and Lester Avnet
Collection. Licensed by Scala-Art Resource, New York. Photo © 2000 Museum of Modern
Art © 2003 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Medium: Pen, reed pen, and ink
Size: 10 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.
Title: The Poet Li Bo Walking and Chanting a Poem, Southern Song
Dynasty
Artist: Liang Kai
Date: c. 1200
Source/Museum: Tokyo National Museum, Japan
Medium: Hanging scroll, ink on paper
Size: 31 ¾ x 11 ⅞ in.
Title: A Sleeping Woman
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date: c. 1660-1669
Source/Museum: The British Museum, London. Marburg/Art
Resource, New York.
Medium: Brush drawing in brown ink and wash
Size: 9 5/8 x 8 in.