Tài liệu Drawing by Lauren Jarrett and Lisa Lenard- P8 pdf

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Taking a Stab at a Colored Drawing

Use good paper. The best is 140-lb. hot-press watercolor paper, and 90 lb. is fine for sketches.

If you foresee adding water to the water-soluble pencil sketch, however, the heavier paper

will work better.

You will find that you can very naturally grab a handful of colored pencils and start in on a

simple arrangement.

➤ That fistful of colors is important. Keep switching colors.

➤ Look at each object and see the range of colors you can use, or

the layers you can build up to get a tone and a color.

➤ It takes time, but it’s fun to see the color happen along with the

drawing.

If you want to learn more about any of the colored media, take a class.

They’re fun and you can learn a lot about color and techniques for

handling the various media. You’ll be glad you did.

Caring for Your Work

Generally speaking, use the best materials you can, take yourself and

your efforts seriously, present your work simply so it can stand on its

own, take care of what you don’t frame, and the archivists and art his￾torians of the future will thank you. Caring for your work now means

your children, grandchildren, and even your Great-great-great grand￾children will have it hanging on their walls (even if they’d rather have

it in their closets).

The range of compli￾mentary colors from

warm to cool.

Try Your Hand

To learn about color, make your￾self lots of small tonal charts for

the colors you have. Try for gra￾dations of tone in an individual

color to see what it does, and

mixed colors in a variety of tones.

Be sure to label the charts so you

know how you made a color that

you like.

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Chapter 25 ➤ Express Yourself

Whether it’s storage, matting, or framing, here’s some of the best

information you’ll find for taking care of your drawings after the

drawing’s over.

On Storage

You’ve spent a lot of time on your work, so treat it right when

you’re finished, too. Portfolios keep your work safe, clean, and flat,

as it should be. Paper storage drawers are expensive and take up

space, but they’re well worth it if you’ve got the money and the

room.

The important thing is to store your work somewhere where it will

be kept in its natural state: flat. In addition, you’ll want to keep it

away from damaging sun rays and—even more damaging—water,

so next to the garage window or in the basement next to the

sump pump are probably not the best places.

Matting and Framing

Less is more. Simple is as simple does. White is right. Art, or its mat, should not be expected

to match the couch.

In other words, forget the fuschia or lime green mats to match the flowers on the rug. Your

work will look best in a simple white or off-white mat and a simple wood frame that can be

more or less the color of the other woods where you plan to hang it. The important thing is

that the choices help the drawing; it will find its place on the wall.

Turning a New Page: Fine Art Meets Tech Art

To: Theovg23@aol.com

From: Vincentvgo@hotmail.com

Arles is bleak, and the blasted mistral keeps me indoors. I go days without speaking a word to

anyone. Thank you for the money. With it, I bought a blazing tangerine iMac, which I am E￾mailing you on right now. You were right, the Hotmail account was very simple to set up and

free, so I can still survive on five francs a day.

—Noah Baumbach, “Van Gogh in AOL,” The New Yorker

Can you imagine Vincent with an iMac? He probably would have felt more connected and

maybe less troubled. One thing’s for certain—the high-tech world is having an effect on al￾most everyone. You can run but you can’t hide, so jump in—you might like it more than

you ever imagined.

Creating a Virtual Sketchbook

Creating a virtual sketchbook is as simple as a few peripherals for your computer—a scanner

and a color printer. Which scanner and printer you buy will depend on both your budget

and your desires. We leave it to your local big-box computer store to help you with the

myriad choices, but we can help you with the basic how-to’s once you’ve got your equip￾ment.

Try Your Hand

Start with a light color for your

planning lines. Lavender works

very well because it blends into

almost any color, and it can

become a shadow if the lines are

outside your objects as you de￾fine them more closely.

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Scanning Your Images

Most flat scanners are designed to read images up to 81

/2" × 14", so if your drawings are larg￾er than that, you’ll have to scan them in sections. The process may be unwieldy and the re￾sults, less-than-desirable reproductions of your drawings. If you’ve been doing a lot of your

sketching on the road, though, you probably did so in a small enough sketchbook.

Is there a drawing that you particularly like? Start with that one. Tear it carefully from your

sketchbook and then lay it flat on your scanner and scan it in (you’ll need your manufac￾turer’s instructions for this, and there’s no way we can help you with those).

After you’ve scanned your image, the program will ask you to save it. Give it a name you’ll

remember it by: “Laguna Sunset” or “Fisherman on the Gila” are two good examples.

Now, you can look at your work with the imaging program that came with your scanner, or,

if you decide you don’t like that program, another that you’ve downloaded off the World

Wide Web. One of the things that you can do, once the image of your drawing is saved to

your computer, is manipulate it. That means you can erase those extra scribbles in the cor￾ner without fear of going through the paper, or you can add some lines to the fisherman’s

face. Don’t get carried away, though—we think real drawing’s a lot more fun than virtual

drawing.

Printing Your Images

You can also print your images, of course, once you’ve scanned them into your computer

and saved them. If your drawings are in black and white, you won’t even need a color

printer. Even the popular—and inexpensive—bubble-jet printers do a great job with graphic

images, which is what your drawing is.

E-Mailing with Your Own Art

Now that you’ve got it on your computer, you may want to e-mail your art to all your

friends. So long as attachments are an option with your particular e-mail, e-mailing your art

is simple: Save it as a small .jpg file, add it to your e-mail as an attachment, and then write

your note. Poof! Off it goes to annoy one or all of your friends—just like all the jokes that

they’ve already seen three times.

Creating Your Own Illustrated Home Page

To: Theovg23@aol.com

From: Vincent2@VanGo.com

I’ve started to work again. Check out my home page (and note new address). I designed it

with a soft malachite green, a fiery iMac raspberry and a troubled Prussian lilac. I may’ve

mastered the brushstroke and HTML, but am a novice with Java. There’s always more to

learn.

—Noah Baumbach, “Van Gogh in AOL,” The New Yorker

There are classes in HTML and Java, two of the most popular Web languages, and there are

editorial programs that make it much easier to create a Web site of your own. You can also

customize the home page on your Internet program. One example to take a look at is

Lauren’s home page, the first page of her Web site at www.laurenjarrett.com. Check it out!

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