Daily Drawing #68. Spring Day
Tagged: daily drawing, drawing
Category: Leslie's Doings
Pen and ink wash with white gouache and Caran d’Ache on watercolor paper. 6 1/2″ x 10 1/4″
Is it a drawing or a painting? I started with line using a nib pen and india ink. No question that is a drawing. Then I came into it with ink washes but still black and white. Caran d’Ache are crayons that melt with water, so I drew with them and then smeared the color with a moist brush. Am I still drawing? Lastly I enlarged the blooming tree with white gouache, painting it on with a brush, let it dry and drew over the white with the crayon.
Here’s one definition of a drawing: In a narrow definition of the term, a drawing is an artwork created from lines or areas of tone created with a dry medium on a piece of paper. For example, graphite pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, or silverpoint. In a broader definition of the term, a drawing is a two-dimensional artwork created from lines or tone that is dominated by a dry medium but can include wet mediums such as ink, and washes of paint.
Does it matter? To me not a whit, but it’s as fun to play with words as it is to draw and paint.
Where do you draw the line?
Leslie,
I recently did a painting lesson in my drawing class, explaining to the students that I didn’t know where a drawing left off and a painting began. They worked with white chalk first on black paper, then went over those lines with white paint, then could add whatever paint colors they wanted. One student- who always does masterful line drawings- did just an abstraction of colors without form, saying that she felt like she was putting make-up blush on the paper. By the way, I used your Cezanne info the other night in talking about time and space. That as we see objects with a different sense of scale compared to a camera, so we see events in our lives in a non-linear time manner. This conversation came about in regards to the theme of “time” that was the topic of our last Unitarian group gathering here in Sisters.
Paul – I appreciate your input here and am pleased that you are finding connections in our thinking. I saw the floor chalk drawingon your FB page – wonderful! https://www.facebook.com/paulalanbennett?fref=ts