Drake, grainy, velvety and soft, these are some of the intrinsic quality’s this medium gives.
| I seen this video the other day and I was really compelled to this. One of the classes I took was Analysis of form and everything had to be done in charcoal. I was really skeptical at first and had my hands in charcoal before. I always thought charcoal being a real messy medium, very dirty. So that shun me away from using the form. I’am more of a neat, like things clean, kind of person. But over the course of the class I picked up different ways to tidy up technique and acquire new skills in this medium. It’s interesting what you can learn just by diving into a medium and going with the pace. ( Drawing with charcoal ) |  Just like this one I have pictured, White USA charcoal leaves allot of dust deposit when used. I had to use a drop cloth to catch all the excess charcoal and when working on black coal paper you can’t brush it. So I also had to find different ways to work with that. This is some challenges I had to over come to complete this work of art. |
However in the link ^above you will find some more interesting things that I didn’t know about charcoals history background. But what really inspired me about this video is the part of talking about the paper. I quote “producing a golden glow” I like that, and when I was working with this medium I had to go about getting paper, not just any paper. Charcoal paper, I had to specially order paper and some of the quality paper I ordered was Golden brown, Peachblow, Coal black, Brightwhite and Grey. I don’t make up these names, and you can find more colors in Strathmore artist paper. Maybe I’ll do a Golden glow landscape picture, that would be a nice one to add to my portfolio.
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