Laundry – Old School
Here is the very first piece from my class, and my first ever charcoal piece. It depicts two women hanging out laundry…
Working with charcoal is so much different from the techniques I use with pencil. When using graphite you typically start with your lights and gradually build upon them to make the necessary sections darker, however, with charcoal it’s the eat opposite where you first begin with your darks and subtract to gain the lights.
And of course charcoal is MUH faster so I an essentially complete a piece in a few days, as oppose to a few weeks. I just need to do a few more of these to gain a better understanding of how to find the various light/dark values in any photo and transfer them into the piece.
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By Vanessa N., January 26, 2010 @ 3:47 PM
This is just sooooooooooooooooooo AMAZING!!! and very moving if I might add! OMG!!! Oh awesome and fabulous is this Old School Laundry! This is stellar Vanessa. Truly it is. I so see many generation in this wonderful piece of art. This is just beautiful work. Makes me soooo proud to be a sistah! LOVELY, LOVELY, LOVELY!!!! I’ll keep you posted about the book.
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V
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