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#10 White Conte on a Dark Ground

This is a fun exercise to try your hand at and your mind,
as you must think in reverse!

Similar to charcoal drawings we have been involved with, you must, must, MUST work this type of a drawing up slowly, allowing your values to separate slowly -- and pushing the highest contrast areas of value at the very end.

Your goal is to develop a separation of values that identify a foreground, a middle ground, and a background.

Video: Ficitional Landscape
watch for assistance

Homework:
On a dark piece of paper -- darker than middle grey, create a drawing with white Conte, pastel or chalk.
10 x 14"

The subject matter is taken from observation such as still life, a landscape from a photograph, human figure

Here are some examples:













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