Incredible Pencil & Charcoal Drawing Techniques that Change Everything

See how to draw roses with pencil and charcoal as preparatory drawings for oil paintings. Kathleen explains her engagement with roses as a figurative subject for her paintings, providing a comprehensive demo on how to set up the lighting and placement of the roses, how to sharpen & prepare pencil/charcoal supplies, and then how to draw a structural drawing in pencil, and a pictorial drawing in charcoal.

Demo and discussion with Art Prof Clara Lieu and Guest Teaching Artist Kathleen Speranza.

ARTIST LINKS, Kathleen Speranza
https://www.kathleensperanza.com/
  / speranzafineart  
https://kathleensperanza.podia.com/

TIME STAMPS
00:00 Opening
00:22 Charcoal technique
01:05 Sharpening tools
04:56 Mechanical pencils
06:44 Kneaded erasers
07:31 Eraser sticks
08:17 Pencil hardness

09:33 Paper
10:34 Powdered charcoal
11:11 Seurat's drawings
11:39 Pan Pastel sponges
12:34 Blending stumps
12:49 Nitram charcoal
15:11 Brushes

16:00 Sharpening charcoal
16:31 Sharpening charcoal pencils
19:30 Why roses
20:17 Setting up the roses
23:25 Lighting
25:19 Setting up 2 roses
26:51 Giotto
29:48 Touching the roses

30:06 Starting the pencil drawing
31:43 Squinting
32:50 Rembrandt's etchings
35:34 Drawing shadow shapes
39:32 Darkest part of the rose

40:59 Finished structural drawing
41:18 Shooting reference photos
42:33 Setting up the roses
43:15 Reference photos of the set up
45:51 Starting the charcoal drawing
48:43 Drawing with toilet paper

51:43 Composition
55:47 Teaching drawing
56:50 Rose encyclopedia
58:08 Changing Light
1:00:46 Commercially grown roses vs. garden roses
1:02:58 Finished pictorial drawing
1:03:40 Bloopers

Kathleen Speranza has had an academic career of more than thirty years teaching painting and drawing at the college level. She was on the Faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design for several years. Kathleen now leads painting workshops both nationally and Internationally. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University School of Art.

Her paintings have always explored the visual language of space, light, color and form as it relates to specific subjects from nature. Kathleen has exhibited work in group and solo shows throughout the US and U.K. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections.

REFERENCE PHOTOS OF THE ROSES
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1895613...

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BOOKS & ARTISTS MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO
Encyclopedia of Roses: https://amzn.to/3box1BX
John Constable, Giotto , Georges Seurat, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Vincent van Gogh, J.M.W. Turner, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

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