Drawing Techniques by Old Masters & Contemporary Artists

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(Hilaire Germain) Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) Detail from Sheet of Studies and Sketches, 1858 Graphite (central head study), ...

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In watercolor, artists paint with colored washes made of extremely fine particles of pigments dispersed in water. Watercolor is ...

Many people think of drawings as pencil sketches or chalk doodles, limited to shades of black and gray, and often left unfinishe ...

Pastel is made by blending dry, powdered pigments with a non-greasy liquid binding medium. The resulting paste is then usually r ...

Crayon has a waxy or greasy quality created by the addition of a binder to the pigment, so the material builds up thickly on rai ...

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Gouache is similar to watercolor, but it includes the addition of a white pigment (or "body;" it is often called bodycolor) that ...

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Although totally different in technique, these two drawings share a similar compositional structure and illustrate how the disto ...

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Made in the same decade and with similar materials, these two sheets show completely different approaches to abstraction. Both a ...

Louise Bourgeois ...