What is also interesting to see in conjunction with Hughes» paintings, are her stacks of
crayon drawings which feel very much «finished» and complete in their own way.
Not exact matches
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 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.
She says, «One pumpkin,» while showing the first page,
which has a
crayon drawing of a single pumpkin.
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.
Claiming to have been
drawing since he was old enough to hold a
crayon, Troy was keen to share his work
which mainly consists of dynamic vector illustrations created using Serif's DrawPlus.
In this show, as always, she is intensively engaged with
drawing and its corporeality:
drawings that she makes with her little finger on an iPhone screen, and the
drawing process inherent to large - scale paintings
which she makes using brushes, rags, scrapers and giant oil
crayons.
Often large in scale, these
drawings are typically made with a thick impasto of black paintstick (or, more recently, lithographic
crayons melted into a brick),
which is applied to a surface in broad, dense passages.
His
crayon drawings,
which respond to the paintings, in particular, are portraits in the form of hairdos, each one expressing a distinct visual personality rather than a representation of a particular individual.
The fifty - seven works in the exhibition can be divided more or less equally into three related groups: eighteen oil paintings done on linen, all measuring 22 x 28 inches; nineteen oils done on paper, all measuring 22 x 30 inches; twenty
drawings on paper, most of
which measure around 11 x 14 inches, and done in a wide range of materials, including gouache, colored pencil,
crayon, ink, and graphite.
For the purposes of this publication,
drawings are works on paper that do not contain a collage element and that are executed exclusively in one or more dry mediums (such as graphite, charcoal, or
crayon), and / or in fluid mediums other than paint (such as ink, watercolor, or gouache,
which is an opaque form of watercolor).
The preparatory
drawings,
which combine pencil,
crayon, collage, tape, measurements, and other inscriptions, offer a fascinating window into the artist's creative process.