A couple of untitled, monochrome
crayon drawings from 1989 contain just a few quick loops and dashes, like klatches of unicellular life - forms ready to make the leap into more complexity.
Things as simple as discovering a group of tents in the middle of the woods with blood trails strewn about, or potential clues in the form of
crayon drawings from your son, to stumbling on the unfortunate remains of other passengers.
Not exact matches
These ideas come
from our own childhood, whether good or bad,
from the media and
from seeing the experiences of our friends and relatives: pushing prams with sleeping babies along the riverside, teaching our children to walk, training them how to
draw with
crayons rather than eat them, answering cute questions, making star charts, walking them to school.
Watching people experience color —
from a sunset to
drawings created by children with
crayons — for the first time, is a surprisingly emotional experience.
There is also a 12 × 18
crayon drawing above the sink
from a young soul who died of leukemia five years ago: it's a little stick figure, with a bursting red heart and a caption that reads «you win when you speak with your heart.»
Preschool activities range
from drawing shapes and images using
crayons, water color and other resourceful materials such as leaves and flowers, to story telling.
Once kids have decided on which ones to make, either print up faces
from the internet, or
draw them using markers and / or pencil
crayons.
The game's art style is similar to that of previous Yoshi games, with backgrounds
drawn as though they are created
from crayons, watercolors or oil paints.
The teacher is soft spoken and attentive, which suits the situation: There are six other children in the very small classroom with cluttered bookshelves, maps,
crayon drawings, and colorful decorations hanging
from the ceiling.
On most of the
drawing apps that I have seen there are a number of limited types of «pen» to choose
from such as: pencil, marker, brush, spray paint,
crayon, ballpoint, watercolour brush... and you can then set thickness of the line for the pen type you select.
Out in the country Roger's ex-wife's aunt Eula stuck the picture up on the refrigerator beside a
crayon drawing of the Titanic her grandson had sent her
from California.
We did get a gold star
from Ms. Thomas in 3rd grade for a pretty amazing
crayon drawing of what we'd be doing when we grew up — it wasn't writing a blog.)
Elsewhere, the IGF (Independent Games Festival) launched in 1999 was also going
from strength to strength,
drawing more attention to the likes of Darwinia, Monaco and
Crayon Physics Deluxe.
While working on the gameplay, the team was trying out different art styles; everything
from traditional game art to even child - like
crayon drawings.
Yes, while some games can be considered technically and / or stylistically superior, like Super Metroid with its screen - filling bosses, Yoshi's Island with its liberal use of scaling and rotating, and Kirby's Dream Land 3 with its mimicry of a child's
crayon drawing, when it comes down to a game creating a believable landscape hewn
from the living world, DKC3 takes on all comers.
She graduated
from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 1997 and she works with both painting and
drawing, mostly watercolour, ink, pencil or
crayon on paper.
Pruitt, a masterful draftsman who has described his work as coming «
from the evolution and convergence of pop culture, science fiction, and Black revolutionary culture,» has nearly 20 large - scale conté -
crayon drawings on view through Oct. 27 in Robert Pruitt: Women at the Studio Museum Harlem in New York.
The show continues with a wide sampling of Serra's process - oriented
drawings from the early 1970s, when he
drew primarily on paper with ink, charcoal, and lithographic
crayon.
Drawing from images found in newspaper, magazines, and some he has taken himself, he erases what is recognizable about them by reproducing them with
crayon onto dark cotton canvases.
Rejecting line and contour, I began to
draw with charcoal and coloured
crayon, looking for plane and volume and arriving at the form
from inside rather than outside.
Also seen the same day, down the block
from Pace Gallery, in the show at Lennon - Weinberg Gallery, «H.C. Westermann: The Human Condition, Selected Works, 1961 - 1973,» some early
drawings by H.C Westermann (1922 - 1981), done (as I overheard the gallerist explaining) when the artist was in the hospital being treated for testicular cancer — which he survived: his wife had brought him some
crayons and paper, and he worked on a group of small
drawings, some in the artist's characteristic graphic, cartoon - related style, some in a more abstract and less over-determined mode — after he recovered, these were packed away and never shown until now.
Considering them both to be transformative figures, Steinberg located a particularly significant moment of transition in contemporary art at large in Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning
Drawing from 1953, a seminal piece of conceptual gamesmanship that the artist created by asking Willem de Kooning for an intricate layered work of ink, graphite,
crayon, and charcoal and then meticulously erasing it.
Created with a dry palette of graphite, gouache, and conté
crayon on paper, the works feature biomorphic forms
drawn from the worlds of physics, science fiction, anatomy, and horticulture.
Within these confines, Ramírez produced a body of remarkable
drawings collaged
from found paper and executed with matchsticks, melted
crayons, and other makeshift implements.
Using techniques and materials ranging
from pop colored inks, gradient monoprinting, loose watercolors, acrylic paint,
crayon, and sharpie crosshatching, Lederer creates images that walk the line between wry playfulness, and deep - seated fears, all the while deconstructing the picture plane and
drawing parallels between the digital and the analog.
Illustrated with over 500 images, Vitamin D2 features practices ranging
from highly accomplished figurative
drawing to abstract explorations of the medium, in materials including pencil, charcoal,
crayon, pastel, ink, watercolour and digital
drawing.
The show marches chronologically up the famous winding ramp
from the earliest paintings and
drawings (a grim but strangely lyrical
crayon drawing of barbed wire dating to 1918) to the latest, most expressive and gestural paintings made in 1946, the year he succumbed to leukemia at age 51.
Images by Ryan Garry «I have always had an interest in art since childhood; graduating
from drawing with
crayons on walls at my parents» house...
The
drawings and paintings on paper utilize wildly diverse materials,
from paint and
crayon to fabric, aluminum foil, album covers and the artist's own last will and testament.
The exhibition begins with his
drawings from the early 1970s, when he
drew primarily on paper with ink, charcoal, lithographic
crayon, and black paintstick — a
crayon comprised of a mixture of pigment, oil, and wax.
While the
drawings appear intuitively improvised, composed at the moment the black
crayon meets the paper, the sculptures are the result of a slower process;
from layered modelling to casts.
• English Sporting Paintings o Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 - 1851), four works
from the series A Steeplechase at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, ca. 1840 - 50, oil on panel, each 10 × 14»: The First Fence; Taking a Brook; Bad Fall at a Paling Fence; and Coming up to the Finish o Sir Edwin Landseer (English, 1802 — 1873), A Terrier on a Step, oil on canvas, 7 ⅛ × 8 ⅛» o Sir Alfred J. Munnings (English, 1878 — 1959): Study of the Pytchley Bitch, 1928, oil on panel, 16 × 16»; Pilot, one of Freeman's Hunters, Pytchley, Brixworth, 1928, oil on board, 16 × 8 1/4» • European Paintings o Kees van Dongen (Dutch, 1877 - 1968), Haystacks, n.d., (possibly ca. 1904 - 05), oil on canvas, 19 ⅝ x 25 1/2» o Raoul Dufy (French, 1877 - 1953), L'Atelier au bouquet, 1942, oil on canvas, 25 ⅝ × 31 ⅞» o Paul Gauguin (French, 1848 - 1903), Still Life with Bowl, ca. 1889, oil on canvas, 8 x 12 ⅜» o Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1835 - 1890), Daisies, Arles, 1888, oil on canvas, 13 x 16 1/2» o Camille Pissarro (French, 1830 - 1903), The «Royal Palace» at the Hermitage, Pontoise, 1879, oil on canvas, 21 ⅜ x 25 ⅞» o Rene Princeteau (French, 1843 - 1914), Le Tilbury, oil on canvas, 15 ⅞ x 22 ⅛» o Georges Seurat (French, 1859 - 1891), Houses and Garden, ca. 1882, oil on canvas, 11 x 18 1/2» o Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901), Norfdac, 1881, oil on panel, 9 1/4 x 5 ⅝» • European
Drawings o Leon Bakst (Russian, 1866 - 1924), La Chasse, pencil and watercolor on paper, sight: 12 ⅛ x 18 ⅝» o Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898), recto: Deux Bretonnes en costume, verso: untitled graphite and watercolor sketch, 10 1/2 x 8 ⅛» o Alexandre - Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803 - 1860), Studies of Hounds, black chalk on grey paper, 6 3/4 x 10 ⅞» o Georges Seurat, Enfant à l'echarpe, black conte
crayon, sight: 6 1/2 x 4» o Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec, Le depart, pen and ink and pencil, sight: 6 x 9 3/4»
In the medium - scale
drawings on view, the artist uses ink, gold leaf,
crayon, pastel and pencil on paper to explore historical depictions of wings and flying, while her large - scale collages employ mapping to smartly reinterpret aesthetic and literary themes
from the past.
On Sept. 20, some 450 paintings
from all periods of a five - decade - long career and about 1,750
drawings executed with pencil, graphite, conte
crayon, ink and oil, as well as watercolors and pastels, will be published in high resolution on the website of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver.
In his exquisitely crafted Kin series and related tableaux, Lovell combines freely
drawn Conté
crayon figures of anonymous African Americans with time worn objects
from everyday life, such as a brooch, clock, or flag.